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Conclusions and Recommendations Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia Judging by public discourse, the growing intolerance and even repression might spiral in 2006 when Serbia will have to cope with two major and potentially frustrating challenges: negotiations on the final status of Kosovo and Montenegro’s referendum. While refusing to acknowledge defeat and thus unchain itself, the political elite insists on the Serbian people’s sacrifice – even Slobodan Milosevic’s death is used to sustain this loss – and fuels the society’s resistance to change and reserve for the West. Serbia is a closed society with poor capacity for transition. She has not been yet constituted as an institutional state and lacks a new paradigm capable of mobilizing all citizens regardless of their ethnic, religious or political affiliations. Constant campaigning against a part of the civil society, the absence of alternative thought, intolerably coarse language used in the Serbian parliament, tabloidization of the media and their instrumentalization in curbing liberal social tendencies, and clericalization of the society nothing but testify of Serbia’s meager liberal potential. Under the weight of her recent past, Serbia is still ambivalent to her future. Serbia is eager to join European integration processes as soon as possible, but in real life manifests insufficient political will and capacity. The fact that Serbia is an unfinished state without clear borders seriously threatens her reformist potential and, in this context, ability to promote and protect human rights. Recommendations to the Serbian Government: The Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia puts forth the following demands: • The government should prepare the public in Serbia for realistic solutions to Kosovo and Montenegrin issues in keeping with the principles defined by the international community so as avoid additional frustration among citizens and all political factors. This is the only way to prevent destabilization of the Serbian society and create conditions for addressing the crucial questions of transition; • The government should cooperate with The Hague Tribunal seriously and in full sincerity. This implies immediate arrests of Ratko Mladic and other indictees; • The government should pursue system reforms and, in the first place, round off the legal framework necessary for the society’s normal functioning; • The government should clearly manifest its political will for the implementation of the enacted legislation; Human Security in an Unfinished State • The government should resume the principles of a secular state and, in this context, distance itself from the Serbian Orthodox Church’s political activity; • The government should engage itself in the promotion of the European value system and thus prepare younger generations for Serbia’s European future; • The government should guarantee the freedom of the media under the existing provisions and their freedom from the influence of informal circles; • The government should warrant the atmosphere of tolerance so as to enable a free social debate leading to the consensus on Serbia’s option for Europe; • The government should be an active factor in curbing all forms of nationalism so as to pave the road for interethnic harmonization and open the door to alternative options; • State institutions should adopt the programs for facing the past, a process that preconditions the renewal of trust and cooperation with the countries in the region. Recommendations to the International Community: • In its attempt to have Serbia join European integration processes as soon as possible, the international community should strike a proper balance between pressure and motivation. This is the more so important since Serbia needs to trigger off her inner potential; • The international community should actively partake in creating the instruments and mechanisms for the implementation of the enacted "European" laws; • To speed up the initiatives for regional cooperation, the international community should be more perceptive in discerning the Serbian radical nationalism. In this context, it should more resolutely engage itself in the resolution of Kosovo and Montenegrin issues, as well as in the definition of Serbia’s borders and internal arrangements; • In its contacts with Serbia’s government and other relevant authorities, the international community should more firmly call for tolerant attitudes towards any alternative thought and demand guarantees for safe activity of the civil sector, particularly the non-governmental organizations concerned with human rights; • Apart from assisting governmental agencies, the international community should show more understanding for Serbia’s still blurred liberal option embedded in some smaller political parties and a part of the civil sector; 18 19
Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia Human Security in an Unfinished State • The international community should actively partake in education of young professionals and facilitate their contacts with European educational institutions (visa regime). I SHADOW OF THE PAST 20 21
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