The process of searching for missing persons in Kosovo has stalled due to problems of identification of over 400 bodies which have been in the Pristina morgue for eight years, Director-General of the International Commission on Missing Persons (ICMP) Kathryne Bomberger said Saturday.

There are two possible reasons hindering identification - either some identifications were wrong as DNA analyses were not used from the outset, or the bodies were not those of victims of the Kosovo conflict, she told Tanjug.

There are 1,800 blood samples from relatives of missing persons but no matches, she said, adding that all bodies were exhumed according to legal procedure.

Bomberger stressed that technical issues regarding the Kosovo conflict must be resolved, otherwise they will hinder the progress of the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue on search for missing persons in Kosovo.

She noted that 14,000 people are still considered missing.