The document confirms Kosovo's unbreakable constitutional and legal ties with Serbia and rejects any unilateral act on the province's independence. It says that based on the Serbian Constitution and all international acts, Kosovo is part of the uniform and inseparable territory of the sovereign state Serbia.
It was decided that the collection of signatures for the declaration would begin on the religious holiday of St. Vitus, June 28, at a historic location, Gazimestan near Pristina, where in 1389 the Serbs lost the Kosovo Battle to the Turks and where in 1989, at an anniversary of the battle, Slobodan Milosevic announced the disintegration of Socialist Yugoslavia and war.