Constitution of Kosovo
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Currently, Kosovo is governed after an interim Constitutional Framework ratified in 2001. It provides for the Provisional Institutions of Self-Government, reserving the final authority to the Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General based on the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1244.
A new Constitution of Kosovo is being drafted and is expected to be ratified after the issue of Kosovo's status is resolved.
From late 1800s to 1912, Kosovo existed as a province of the Ottoman Empire with slightly greater territory than the current one. On November 28, 1912 Kosovo sent its representatives to the Albanian National Assembly and voted for the independence of Albania and Kosovo as part of the new country. However, Kosovo was militarily occupied and then ceded to Serbia with the decision of the Great Powers.[1]
In 1918, Kosovo was re-annexed into the Kingdom of Yugoslavia and carved into the banovinas of Morava, Zeta and Vardar. It was only in 1946 after a third annexation that was Kosovo attributed the current borders and defined as “a autonomous county”. A sort of statute passed in 1946 turned the Albanian majority into a minority. The new Yugoslavian Constitution of 1963 recognized Kosovo as an autonomous province.[2]
The 1974 Constitution of the Socialist Autonomous Province of Kosovo in the Socialist Federative Republic of Yugoslavia was the first actual constitution of Kosovo. On July 2, 1990 Kosovo declared its righteous secession from the Republic of Serbia, based on the provision of the Yugoslav and Kosovar constitutions, The 1990 Constitution of the Republic of Kosovo was promulgated in September, though it was not completely put into practice due to the Serbian occupation.
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