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The resolution regretting what it called "the campaign of violence and the restrictions on the political opposition" by Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe in the run-up to Friday's scheduled presidential election was issued Monday by the U.N. Security Council. It was the body's first such statement on the bloodshed in which an estimated 80 of Tsvangirai's supporters have been killed by forces loyal to Mugabe's ZANU-PF party.

The council overcame divisions among its 15 members to pass the resolution, with China, Russia and South Africa seeking to dilute its language while the United States and Britain pushed for stronger wording, The New York Times reported.

"I think it's a very important resolution", Tsvangirai told Dutch broadcaster Radio 1. "It recognizes the people who are accountable for the violence and it squarely placed that responsibility at Mugabe's leadership. I am sure that he can no longer remain defiant to that international position."

Police in Harare, meanwhile, arrested 60 people at the headquarters of Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change party, including children and political violence victims, The Washington Post reported.

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