Armenia’s acting PM says lessons should be picked from case with bodies but says minister cannot go and check all the places every day

Armenia’s acting Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan referred at the cabinet sitting today to the revelation of conditions the bodies and remains of killed Armenian servicemen were kept in.

“All the individuals relating to the case have been fired but when reforms are taking place in the system, we see rallies, protest actions against the dismissals,” he said.

The acting PM stressed that the employees of the Forensic Medicine Center worked practically 24 hours 7 days a week without a break.

Pashinyan stressed the need to pick lessons from the case but at the same time noted that the government or the minister of health cannot go to all places every day to see the situation.

“At this moment the DNA works reached the final phase. We have bodes which have not been identified, but we also have relatives of missing who with different reasons have not given their DNA sample. We also have identified bodies, which with different reasons were not taken by the relatives. These are both objective and subjective reasons. We have over 50 remains out of which even after the 4th, 5th attempt the DNA was not separated, Pashinyan said, adding that they must apply to international partners for assistance in regard of these cases.