UN Security Council
1979

Resolution 454 (1979) of 2 November 1979 The Security Council, Having considered the request of the Permanent Representative of Angola contained in document S/13595, 71 as well as his note dated 31 October 1979 transmitting the text of a communiqué issued by the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the MPLA-Workers’ Party, 72 Having heard the statement of the Permanent Representative of the People’s Republic of Angola, 73 Recalling its resolutions 387 (1976) of 31 March 1976 and 447 (1979) of 28 March 1979, by which, inter alia, it 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 the People’s Republic of Angola, Gravely concerned at the premeditated, persistent and sustained armed invasions committed by South Africa in violation of the sovereignty, air space and territorial integrity of the People’s Republic of Angola, Convinced that the intensity and timing of these acts of armed invasion are intended to frustrate efforts at negotiated settlements in southern Africa, particularly