past eleven years, they have shown that they are ready to sacrifice everything to defend their natural right to self— determination, freedom and independence. They have confirmed all this by their massive participation in the referendum for a Kosova ReDublie. as a sovereign and independent state with the right to participate as a constitutive element in an alliance of repub1ics of Yugoslavia , organized by the Kosova assembly on 26- 30 September 1991. Though the Serbian police did everything it could to prevent this referendum, out of 1,151,000 registered Kosova voters 914,802 or 87.01% voted, and of these 913,705 or 99.87% voted in favour.

Isuf Berisha

President of the Association of Philosophers and Sociologists of

Kosova

London, December 1991

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