Memorandum is a Latin term that is actively used today in the political sphere. It represents a specific type of relationship between different states.
The word "memorandum" came into our everyday life from the Latin language, where it meant something important to remember. Today, this word is understood as a type of written document (act) exchanged between the governments of these countries. As a rule, a memorandum is a kind of attachment to a note - another diplomatic act, the essence of which is to present certain rights, claims, as well as protests against any wrong decisions of the higher authorities. A note is a document that does not have to indicate a protest, it can be informative. A memorandum, as a rule, contains information about a particular issue that is put forward in a note. It may contain a detailed analytical report on the problem being expressed, or it may contain theses used as objections in discussions on a certain fact. The memorandum, like the note, has always been one-man, but in the past few decades, collective papers have appeared, which are drawn up by authorized officials of two or more countries. Such documents suggest a close relationship between the countries that took part in its signing. During the Soviet era, parallel memoranda were circulated, which were exactly the same and sent to several states. The most striking example can be considered the papers of the USSR on the topic of the threat of the use of nuclear weapons. The texts indicated that similar materials were sent to the leadership of other countries. Often, memoranda are confused with memoranda, which carry additional information to oral speech. The main difference between these documents is that the notes are created in the third person, and contain appeals (sometimes compliments), and the memorandum is written without appeals and in an impersonal form.