While Kosovo marked 36 years since the signing of the Constitutional Declaration of July 2, 1990, acting president Albulena Haxhiu said that the country at that time, although it had very little room for action, refused to be treated as a province of Serbia.
“The declaration defined the act as political self-determination. It established Kosovo as an independent and equal unit within the confederation of Yugoslavia and confirmed it as a constitutional political community of equal citizens and communities. It rejected Serbia’s amendments of 1989 and decided that the Assembly and the political community should be publicly named only as Kosovo,” said Haxhiu.
Acting Prime Minister Albin Kurti stated that the Declaration of July 2, 1990 marked
“Without the first Republic of Kosovo, that of 1990 and the following decade, we wouldn’t even be able to make the Republic of Kosovo as an independent state in 2008, today’s state house. We meet a generation of politicians who are very conscious and aware that nothing started with us and nothing ends with us. Everyone has been in front who paved the way and worked, committed and sacrificed so that we can continue”, said Kurti.
The chairman of the delegates who voted for the Constitutional Declaration of July 2, 1990, Ilaz Ramajli, said that when he sees independent Kosovo, he is convinced that the declaration was not just a legal act.
The Constitutional Declaration of July 2, 1990 was approved by 114 delegates of the Assembly of Kosovo in front of the parliament building in Pristina, as the Serbian authorities did not allow them to enter the building.
The document is considered the cornerstone of the state of Kosovo, as it marked the starting point for independence from Serbia, aiming for equal treatment with the then republics of the Yugoslav Federation.
