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2 July 1990 · 1989–1995

The Constitutional Declaration of 2 July 1990

Barred from the Assembly building, Albanian delegates gathered outside and adopted a “Constitutional Declaration” proclaiming Kosovo an equal unit within Yugoslavia and rejecting the 1989 amendments.
Evidence status: Documented. Supported by contemporaneous documents, institutional reports or independent studies that corroborate one another.Before the warPoliticsPeaceful resistance

Sources characterise it differently: “declaring Kosovo an independent republic” (ICTY), “an independent republic within the Yugoslav federation” (Helsinki Watch) [1] [2]. Serbia and the SFRY did not recognise it; the SFRY Constitutional Court declared it invalid.

Sources

  1. [1]Tribunali Penal Ndërkombëtar për ish-Jugosllavinë (ICTY). Prosecutor v. Milutinović et al., Judgement, Volume 1 of 4. 2009-02-26. IT-05-87-T. https://www.icty.org/x/cases/milutinovic/tjug/en/jud090226-e1of4.pdf. Accessed 2026-09-16. — para. 223
  2. [2]Helsinki Watch (Human Rights Watch). Yugoslavia: Human Rights Abuses in Kosovo 1990–1992. 1992-10. https://www.hrw.org/reports/pdfs/y/yugoslav/yugo92o.pdf. Accessed 2026-09-16.
  3. [3]Tribunali Penal Ndërkombëtar për ish-Jugosllavinë (ICTY). Prosecutor v. Slobodan Milošević, Transcript, 3 May 2002 (testimony of Ibrahim Rugova). 2002-05-03. IT-02-54. https://www.icty.org/x/cases/slobodan_milosevic/trans/en/020503IT.htm. Accessed 2026-09-16.

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