Budget Estimates for the Financial Year 1967 and Information Annexes; Report of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions: In its report to the General Assembly on the budget estimates for the financial year 1967 the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions noted that the Secretary-General had proposed for 1967 a gross expenditure budget of $128,227,800, an increase of $6,660,380 over the gross level of $121,567,420 approved by the Committee for 1966. Of the total estimated income of $21,623,626 for 1967 income from staff assessment (for distribution to Member governments as credits through the Tax Equalization Fund) was calculated at $13,350,000 and income from all other sources (for deduction from gross appropriations for purposes of the assessment of contributions) at $8,273,626. After deduction of estimated income the net expenditure level for 1967 would be $106,604,174, an increase of $4,827,454 over the net level of $101,776,720 approved for 1966. Recommendations by the Advisory Committee for reductions in the expenditure estimates totaling $1,730,600, together with certain recommended adjustments in the income estimates, would reduce the net expenditure level for 1967 from $106,604,174, as proposed by the Secretary-General, to $104,831,974. In the aggregate members of the various UN organizations would be asked to contribute about $285.7 million for 1967 as against assessments of $265.8 million for 1966 and $231.9 million in 1965.

Listed below is the membership of United Nations bodies for 1967. Unless otherwise noted, membership expires on December 31 of the year indicated in parentheses. Where names of individuals are listed, the members serve in their personal capacities and not as representatives of states; their nationalities are given for information only.

In his Introduction to the Annual Report of the Secretary-General on the Work of the Organization, 16 June 1965–15 June 1966 Secretary-General U Thant observed that the year under review had been a period in which the prospects for the peace and well-being of mankind suffered disappointments which seemed to outweigh once again the modest gains made in some directions. Describing the international political situation, Mr. Thant said that the cloud over Vietnam had grown larger and more ominous. The serious open conflict between India and Pakistan over Kashmir had calmed, but tensions had been heightened and violence had erupted elsewhere. Nuclear as well as conventional armaments developed apace. Furthermore, comparatively little happened during the year to brighten the outlook of those who occupied the two-thirds of the world where poverty, disease, ignorance, and lack of opportunity were the most conspicuous facts of daily life. Generally speaking, during this period the powerful nations did not show themselves able to overcome the suspicions, fears, and mistrust that sprang from their different ideologies and from their different conceptions of the best interests of the rest of the world; the rich nations did not rise above their concern for the continuation of their own prosperity, nor did the poor nations escape from the dead weight of their chronic poverty and their anachronistic social structures. Against such a background the international community, still incompletely represented by the United Nations, made only limited progress in those areas such as peacekeeping, disarmament, economic and social development, decolonization, and human rights where most was expected of it.

The General Assembly held its 21st session, comprising the 1409th–1501st plenary meetings, at UN Headquarters from September 20 to December 20, 1966, during which time it took action on 98 agenda items and adopted 115 resolutions. During the session the Assembly unanimously admitted four new states to UN membership: Guyana on September 20, Botswana and Lesotho on October 17, and Barbados on December 9, 1966. In accordance with a telegram of September 19 from the Ambassador of Indonesia to the United States addressed to the Secretary-General in which he stated that his government had decided to resume full cooperation with the United Nations and to resume participation in its activities starting with the 21st session of the Assembly and upon the Assembly's expression of its agreement to that effect Indonesia resumed full participation in the work of the UN on September 28. The Organization's total membership thereby reached 122 during the session.

The Security Council convened on July 25, 1966, to consider this question following a request contained in a letter dated July 21, 1966, from the permanent representative of Syria. A letter dated July 22, 1966, was subsequently received from the permanent representative of Israel. The Council devoted its 1288th–1295th meetings, held on July 25–August 3, to this matter. At the invitation of the President representatives of Iraq, Israel, and Syria were invited to take places at the Council table.

The Council of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) met at The Hague on May 12–14, 1964. The Council reaffirmed that the government of the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) was the only German government freely and legitimately constituted and therefore entitled to speak for Germany as the representative of the German people in international affairs. The Council invited Manlio Brosio, former Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister of Italy and presently the Italian Ambassador to Paris, to become Secretary-General of NATO in succession to Dirk U. Stikker (Netherlands), who would retire on August 1, 1964.

The Organization of American States (OAS) Council met in Washington, D.C., in secret session on April 29, 1965, at the request of the United States to consider the crisis which had arisen in the Dominican Republic. This crisis had been brought about by the overthrow on April 25–26 of a three-man civilian junta which had ruled the Dominican Republic since 1963. Civil ar had almost immediately broken out between supporters of former President Juan Bosch, led by Colonel Francisco Caamaño Deñó and military units headed by Brigadier General Elias Wessin y Wessin, who was one of the leaders of the coup which had overthrown Bosch in 1963.