Some 10,000 people died in the war and around 2,700 are still missing, the vast majority ethnic Albanians. Ahtisaari, appointed by the U.N. Security Council last month, has met Kosovo Albanians, Kosovo Serbs and Serbia's leaders in Belgrade. He has also met members of the so-called Contact Group -- Britain, France, Italy, Germany, Russia and the U.S. -- as well as the European Commission. He plans to head to Russia to continue talks. "The future status process should culminate in a political settlement that determines the future of Kosovo," Ahtisaari said adding he would follow the main guidelines set up by the six Contact Group countries. "It is totally premature to start speculating when I will draw the conclusions. I have barely started this exercise. Let's have patience, I have at least," Ahtisaari said. But he said the process had limits and that the present status quo could not go on forever. His team, with headquarters in Vienna, would work as "expeditiously" as possible. In a reminder that war wounds are still fresh, the bodies of 37 Albanians killed in the war and then trucked north and concealed in mass graves in Serbia were returned to Kosovo on Friday. Of a total of 836 such victims, 166 have still to be identified and brought back. --SP 2333 Local Time 2033 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/305434