collective note
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Noun[edit]
collective note (plural collective notes)
- (diplomacy) A formal piece of diplomatic correspondence signed by the representatives of several governments addressed to one or more other governments.
- 1873, United States Department of State, Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, page 156:
- The undersigned, ministers for Russia, Germany, the United States, Great Britain, and France, have the honor to refer to their collective note of the 24th February, in which they expressed their desire to have an audience of His Majesty the Emperor of China for the purpose of presenting their congratulations to His Majesty, and requested his imperial highness to move His Majesty to issue orders for their reception.
- 2011, Pinar Senisik, The Transformation of Ottoman Crete, →ISBN:
- On the other hand, French Foreign Minister Delcassé thought that this collective note would be more effective and successful if all the European Powers joined it.
- 2015, Willard N. Hogan, International Conflict and Collective Security, →ISBN, page 65:
- A collective note was sent to Germany on the interpretation of Article 16.