A method is provided for controlling power of radio links, particularly a method for controlling transmit power of a terminal in soft handover. This may include a process for setting transmit power control commands from each radio link according to quality of each radio link, and a process for setting a combined transmit power control command by confirming whether the transmit power control commands from each radio link are identical for all the radio links. The method for controlling power of the radio links may prevent reduction of reliability of the transmit power control commands in the process for deciding the transmit power control commands from different radio link sets to control the transmit power of the terminal in soft handover.