UN Security Council
1977

accordance with General Assembly resolution 1514 (XV) of 14 December 1960, and the legitimacy of their struggle to secure the enjoyment of such rights as set forth in the Charter of the United Nations, Recalling its resolution 232 (1966) of 16 December 1966, in which it determined that the situation in Southern Rhodesia constituted a threat to international peace and security, Cognizant of the fact that the recent acts of aggression perpetrated by the illegal régime against the People’s Republic of Mozambique together with that régime’s constant acts of aggression and threats against the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Republic of Botswana and the Republic of Zambia aggravate the existing serious threat to the security and stability of the region, Recalling its resolutions on sanctions against the illegal régime in Southern Rhodesia, in particular resolution 253 (1968) of 29 May 1968, Conscious of the important contribution made by the Government of the People’s Republic of Mozambique through its decision of 3 March 1976 to close its borders with Southern Rhodesia and to apply strictly