The edition is based on the preserved copy of the ‘Declaration’ of 6 December 1821. The text was composed by Cypriots who were saved from the July 1821 slaughter and, according to the Academician Paschalis M. Kitromilides, it ‘could be considered [...] as the constitutional text of the Cypriot national movement’.

It consists of a facsimile of the manuscript and an accompanying booklet with explanatory texts about the document, its content and its history. Academician Paschalis M. Kitromilides, Petros Papapolyviou, Associate Professor of the University of Cyprus, and Maria Yiouroukou, PhD, Philologist–Palaeographer, contributed the texts.

The Foundation has donated copies of the edition to libraries, universities and secondary schools in Cyprus, offering the opportunity to use the document as study material at every level of education.