[Dimitri]

Ik heb de tekst van de Grondwet niet op internet gevonden (staat waarschijnlijk wel ergens in de unibieb), wel een citaat eruit. Het gaat om een brief van het Canadees Sloveens Congres aan de regering van Québec, waarin men duidelijk probeert te maken dat door verschillende omstandigheden de onafhankelijkheid van Slovenië niet gebruikt kan worden als voorbeeld voor het streven naar onafhankelijkheid van Québec.

(...) With this letter we wish to clarify some historical facts and reasons for the downfall of Yugoslavia and the formation of an independent Slovenia.

Slovenia did not separate from Yugoslavia. Slovenia declared its independence on June 25, 1991, after the Yugoslavian government (and by extension Yugoslavia) collapsed. This happened after the leaders of Serbia, Crna Gora, and the Yugoslavian military refused to accept recommendations presented by a majority of members of the Yugoslavian presidency to reorganize the Federation of Yugoslavia into a confederation of independent states.

Already since 1988, Slovenia had been trying hard to convince Serbia and Crno Gora that there was an urgent need to make constitutional changes regarding economic, political, national and cultural policies. These efforts were unsuccessful. For a first hand account of these events, please refer to the work Escape from Hell, The Truth of a President, (Editions Latour-Martigny, 1996) by Janez Drnovsek. Four out of six republics (Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia-Hercegovina and Macedonia) finally rebelled against Serbian hegemony.

The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was constitutionally composed of six (6) independent national republics (Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia-Hercegovina, Macedonia, Serbia and Crna Gora) and two(2) territories (Vojvodina and Kosovo). These constituent republics were nationally and territorially defined and for this reason were legally subject republics and not administrative units.

The constitution of the former Yugoslavia was approved in 1974 and accepted by the Federal Parliament, all republics and territories with the following clause:

...derived from the rights and justice of every nationality to self determination, including the right of secession. Based on freely expressed will, nationalities of Yugoslavia united into alliance republics of free and equal nationalities. (Nova revija , No.57, Ljubljana 1987)

Regarding the Slovenian referendum, an historical note. Once it was painfully obvious that the republics of Yugoslavia were not going to reach an understanding with the federal government to enact constitutional changes, Slovenia decided to hold a referendum. This was held on December 23, 1989, with the following outcome: 92.32% voted in favour of independence. Nonetheless, this was not the main reason for secession. Slovenia declared its independence primarily because the former Yugoslavia no longer existed in a workable form acceptable to four out of the six constituent republics. (...)

http://www3.sympatico.ca/ideabank/ks...23_landry.html

De inhoud van dit citaat valt wellicht in de preambule te vinden, zoals in de volgende tekst over de rechten van Kosovo binnen Joegoslavië wordt aangehaald:

(...) The same 1974 Constitution, from the very first words of its preamble, asserts the 'right of secession' of the 'peoples of Yugoslavia'. To be sure, in Titoist jargon the term 'people' designates Yugoslavia's six 'constituent' South-Slav ethnic groups, while the term 'nationality' is used for all the other, non- South-Slav ones, including the Albanians. But Article 245 of the same text stipulates that: 'the peoples and nationalities enjoy equal rights'. Accordingly, if the peoples have the right of secession, the nationalities possess it likewise.

The preamble also says: 'The peoples and nationalities exercise their sovereign rights in the socialist republics and the socialist autonomous provinces.' It may thus be concluded that the peoples and nationalities can exercise their right of secession only in the framework of a republic or province. This was the case for four of the 'peoples' in the four currently recognized republics. It is the case also for one of the 'nationalities': the Albanians in Kosovo. (...)

http://www.bosnia.org.uk/bosrep/sepdec98/kosovo.cfm