What are the importances of meeting minutes in conducting a meeting?

Following are the importances of meeting minutes in conducting a meeting: 1) Agenda of Meeting can be documented and send to all the people who are going to attend the meeting. This helps to prepare them in advance for the Meeting dicussion. 2) Meeting held gets documented and can be refer in future for information like Meeting Topic, Attendees, Absentees, Meeting duration , Meeting recorder etc 3) It helps in documenting the Action items (identified in Meeting) with the Resposible person, Target date and how to track them. 4) Meeting minutes helps in tracking the action items to closure or carry forward to next meeting notes 5) It helps in documenting the Information sharing and important discussions take place during the meeting.