UN Security Council
1985

Resolution 574 (1985) of 7 October 1985 The Security Council, Having considered the request of the Permanent Representative of the People’s Republic of Angola to the United Nations contained in document S/17510, Having heard the statement of the Permanent Representative of Angola, 76 Bearing in mind that all Member States are obliged to refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force against the sovereignty, territorial integrity or political independence of any State and from acting in any other manner inconsistent with the principles and purposes of the United Nations, Recalling its resolutions 387 (1976), 428 (1978), 447 (1979), 454 (1979), 475 (1980), 545 (1983), 546 (1984), 567 (1985) and 571 (1985), which, inter alia, condemned South Africa’s aggression against the People’s Republic of Angola and demanded that South Africa should scrupulously respect the independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity of Angola, Gravely concerned at the persistent, hostile and unprovoked acts of aggression and sustained armed invasions committed by the racist régime of South Africa in