KOSOVO GOVERNMENT HAILS UN CIVIL ADMINISTRATOR'S REPORT TO SECURITY COUNCIL

PRISTINA, Feb 7 (Hina) - The Kosovo government and the leading local Albanian politicians and analysts said on Saturday the report the U.N. civil administrator in Kosovo, Harri Holkeri, submitted to the Security Council yesterday was mostly positive.#L# Spokeswoman Mimoza Kusari said the government applauded the report, but added the failure of Kosovo officials to attend the Security Council session had been an oversight. The Holkeri report on the situation in Kosovo is among the most realistic to have been made in the five years that Kosovo has been under international supervision, politicians said, adding that it was very significant that the civil administrator had begun the report with the issue of persons abducted and gone missing during the war in Kosovo whose fate remained unknown. Holkeri criticised Belgrade for backing parallel structures in Kosovo more than his predecessors, the government said, adding that Holkeri had been the first to openly ask for United Nations assistance in putting an end to that support. According to local officials, the weakest part of the report is the one covering the privatisation of socially-owned enterprise in Kosovo. Ramush Tahiri, parliament speaker Nexhat Daci's political advisor, said the local U.N. Mission should unfreeze that process. (Hina) ha