32 years from adoption of the Constitutional Declaration

On July 2nd, 1990, 114 delegates publicly approved the Constitutional Declaration, with which Kosovo was declared a special entity within the then Yugoslav federation.

It was an expected historical act of the weather and expressed the centuries-old aspirations of the people of Kosovo for state and territorial independence from Serbia.

Two months after the proclamation of the Constitutional Declaration, also known among the people as the Declaration of Independence, September 7, 1990, the same delegates issued the highest judicial act, the Constitution of the Republic of Kosovo, known as the Constitution of Kacanik, with which they formally declared Kosovo.

Serbia, shortly after the declaration of the Constitutional Declaration, established the state of emergency in Kosovo, by surpriseing with tank force all Kosovo institutions, from its Parliament and Executive Council to all other scientific, educational and cultural institutions.

The 2 July Constitutional Declaration marked the starting point of Kosovo's citizenship.

Full text of the Constitutional Declaration:

1. With this statement, the constitutional source position of Kosovo's population and this Parliament is expressed and proclaimed as an act of political self-determination within Yugoslavia.
2. This assembly, on its part and at its level Kosovo as an equal entity in Yugoslavia, on the basis of the principles of authentic democracy on respecting the will of people and of human and national collectivity, awaits confirmation of this constitutional act in the Constitution of Yugoslavia with full support of democratic opinion in Yugoslavia and international opinion.
3. This assembly of Kosovo and its new constitutional position confirm it as a political-unconstitutional community and the politically-cooperative position of Kosovo's equal citizens and nationalities, where Albanians as the majority of Kosovo's population and one of the most numerical peoples in Yugoslavia, as well as Serbs and others in Kosovo, are considered national and nonnational people (national minority).
4. In the meantime, until the legal definition application of this Constitutional Declaration, the Assembly and the Kosovo power bodies support relations in Yugoslavia's constitutional order in the ruling Constitution of Yugoslavia, and not in amendments to the RS Constitution of Serbia in 1989, with what cases being reversed is the Kosovo Parliament's decision of March 23rd 1989 on granting consent to these amendments.
5. The Kosovo Assembly until the release of the new Kosovo Constitution will now publicly communicate with this appointment, while simultaneously naming the social-political body community, which is only like Kosovo.

Pristina, on July 2nd 1990.

The statement has also been deposited in the Serbian language, which testifies to the document in the following photograph: