If Armenia does not receive the body, its fate will be determined by the relevant state authorities.

Axar.az reports Adalat Hasanov, the Director-General of the Forensic Medical Expertise and Pathological Anatomy Unit of the Ministry of Health in his interview with APА.

"The body of the Armenian woman who died in Khankendi is being kept in a reliable place with all the necessary conditions required for this purpose. If Armenia does not take the body, its fate will be determined by the relevant state authorities. In general, bodies are kept in special refrigerators in morgues. The Forensic Medical Expertise and Pathological Anatomy Unit of the Ministry of Health has such refrigerators in all city and district branches of the republic.

The temperature of the refrigerators is regulated by employees. However, refrigerators cannot completely stop the decomposition process in bodies; they can only slow it down. Sometimes additional methods, such as fixation of the body with formalin, may be needed for this purpose," he said.

Note that despite the fact that through mediation of the International Red Cross, the Armenian side and her children were informed of death of Vera Varashakovna Agasyan, born in 1954 and of Armenian descent, on October 20 last year in Khankendi city due to illness and all necessary documentation for the delivery of the body was carried out, and even during a meeting at the border in February this year without the involvement of mediators, the matter was brought directly to the attention of the Armenian delegation, the other side has not responded to the body handover for nearly five months.