The ICTY has rejected the request. An autopsy will be performed in The Hague on Sunday. A request by Serbia and Montenegro for a forensic pathologist from Belgrade to be present at the autopsy has been granted, an official from the ICTY Public Relations Office told Hina in a telephone interview on Saturday evening. She declined to comment on Tomanovic's earlier statement that the former Yugoslav president had been poisoned in the ICTY detention unit.
Milosevic was found dead in his cell around 0900 hours on Saturday. In the afternoon his body was transferred to the Dutch Institute for Forensic Medicine (DFI) in The Hague for autopsy, which will be performed on Sunday morning.