"The political elite in power does not have the strength to constitute the state and set the foundations for a new society, and instead of a new Serb identity it accepts and encourages the most conservative anti-European patterns," Biserko told the press, presenting her committee's report for 2004.
The committee recommended that the Serbian government and parliament, as well as all national institutions, abandon the ethnic and nationalistic concept which brought Serbia into conflict with its neighbours and the world.
The government was recommended to cooperate with the Hague war crimes tribunal honestly and without manipulations which obscure the need to deal with last decade's wars. The committee said the government should adopt a declaration on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the massacre in Srebrenica, Bosnia, which would own up to the crime committed against Muslims and make the public face the truth about it.
The government was also recommended to accept the situation in Kosovo. The committee said the government should support Kosovo's Serbs to actively participate in Kosovo institutions, which meant accepting dialogue with Pristina and committing to reaching a historic agreement between Serbs and Albanians.
The committee also urged the Serbian government to acknowledge the situation within the state union of Serbia and Montenegro.
The committee recommended accelerating the reform of the armed forces in order to join NATO's Partnership for Peace programme, leaving politics out of the police and continuing with the transformation of the police. The committee also said the Serbian government should unequivocally show the Serb Orthodox Church that Serbia is a lay state and not allow the secularisation on which the Church insists.
The government and the judiciary were requested to stop obstructing the trial for the assassination of Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic.
The government was also recommended to start applying an active minority policy.