At the end of Wednesday's debate on Kosovo, the Parliamentary Assembly said that ''a negotiated and mutually accepted solution to Kosovo"s status is the best guarantee that the outcome will not be disputed in the future''.
"However, the adopted text (of Recommendation 1780) underlines that if long-term deadlock leads to continuing insecurity and instability, 'an internationally-imposed solution' may have to be envisaged as a last and extreme resort. Whatever solution is found, it must ensure that minorities are specially protected and that human rights principles are upheld," according to a text issued on the Council of Europe's website.
The lack of an explicit reference to possible conditional independence was interpreted by Qeku as a bad message to Kosovo.
"Thus, Europe shows that it has no courage to make tough decisions," the premier said in Pristina on Thursday.
He also believes that the recommendation did not want to prejudge a solution for Kosovo in light of the fact that Martti Ahtisaari, the UN Secretary-General"s Special Envoy for Kosovo, is expected soon to present his proposal for the status of the province.
"We expect Europe to be unanimous and to support independence and justice at a decisive moment," Qeku told reporters after he held talks with the UN Civilian Administrator in Pristina, Joachim Ruecker.
The two officials ruled out a possibility of unrest in Kosovo after Ahtisaari makes public his solution for Kosovo.
Qeku added that he had not seen the proposal but that he was confident that it would lead to Kosovo's independence.
Ruecker said that any violent resistance to Ahtisaari's plan would damage the entire process of defining Kosovo's status.
Ahtisaari addressed the CoE Parliamentary Assembly during its debate on the current situation in Kosovo on Wednesday.
He was quoted as saying that the main aim of his proposals - which are to be published in the very near future - was to make peaceful coexistence of all the communities possible, ensuring that all, and particularly the minorities, lived in dignified, safe and economically viable conditions.