The cease-fire agreement reached in Moscow on October 10 meant to allow ethnic Armenian forces and Azerbaijan to swap prisoners and bodies of hundreds of soldiers and civilians killed during two weeks of fighting.

However, the International Committee of the Red Cross on October 13 said Armenia and Azerbaijan had yet to finalize arrangements for it to handle a prisoner swap and an exchange of corpses as envisaged by the deal.

“To date, we keep discussing intensely with the sides on this topic. But no meaningful agreement has been reached yet that will allow us to actually proceed to such an exchange”, - Martin Schuepp, ICRC Eurasia regional director, told a news briefing in Geneva.