On 19 March the permanent Belarusian representative at the United Nations H. Čarnuščanka signed the international treaty on political, social and cultural rights which was adopted by the General Assembly in December 1966... On 10 June the head of the Belarusian delegation at the United Nations, the Belarusian foreign minister A. Hurynovič gave a lunch in honour of the UN secretary general U Thant. Present at the reception were the representatives of Bulgaria, Burma, Czechoslovakia, Egypt, Ecuador, Hungary, Iraq, Mauretania, Mexico, Poland, Somalia, the Ukraine and the USSR... A Belarusian delegation, headed by Professor I. Kavaloū, took part in the international conference on the use of cosmic space which opened in Vienna on 14 August...