"Time has come to give Kosovo a status and statehood," Qeku said at the meeting, adding that difficult decisions would not become easier by prolonging their adoption.
According to a statement for the press, Qeku said that the latest postponement benefitted neither Kosovo's nor Serbia's citizens.
"Further postponements are not good for anybody except for those who want destabilisation, such as criminal or extremist structures," Qeku said.
Speaking at the meeting of the Contact Group, Qeku said that during the talks on Kosovo's status, the Kosovo government had been oriented towards meeting standards set as a precondition for defining the province's final status. He added that the Kosovo institutions had made considerable progress in meeting those standards and that Kosovo's plan for the implementation of the standards was now part of the document "Action Plan for European Partnership", which defines the government's policy for the period after the definition of Kosovo's status.
Kosovo's leading Albanian-language daily Koha Ditore said that the Sofia meeting confirmed that a solution for Kosovo's status would be adopted by the end of the year.
The daily claims that sources in the international community have confirmed that the process of defining the status of the province will be accelerated in the second half of November at the initiative of the United States.