Azerbaijan`s goals are very concrete: to obtain lands without  Armenians, Dr. Eibner says

ArmInfo. Even after 30 years, Azerbaijan continues to carry out a policy of ethnic cleansing  in Nagorno-Karabakh. President of the humanitarian non- governmental organization Christian Solidarity International (CSI), Dr. John Vern Eibner, announced at a press conference on September 15.

He presented to reporters a report that was published 30 years ago  under the title "Ethnic Cleansing Today. War in Nagorno-Karabakh>,  which presents data on the barbarities of Baku against the Armenians  of Artsakh. "Unfortunately, if we slightly edit this report today,  only the title will change, in which the phrase "and in Armenia" will  be added to Nagorno-Karabakh," Eibner noted, adding that the war has  also reached the Armenian land. In those lands of the country that  are captured by Azerbaijan, ethnic cleansing has already been carried  out. "There is no war for the sake of war, various mechanisms are  used during its application, but Azerbaijan's goals are very  specific, and they are not new, we have witnessed them throughout the  history of the confrontation, namely, to obtain lands without  Armenians," Dr. Eibner  said.

Pointing to diplomacy as one of the instruments of war, the speaker  emphasized its effectiveness if it is backed by threats of the use of  force, which everyone is witnessing today. One of the manifestations  of this diplomacy is attempts to expel the Armenian population from  Nagorno Karabakh,  which is facilitated by threats of military  operations posing a threat to the local Armenian population. As an  example of this policy, Dr. Eibner  cited the statement of one of the  Azerbaijani diplomats, Elchin Amirbekov, who a week ago told DW that  "genocide is possible if the separatist regime in Karabakh continues  to hold the population hostage."

Eibner noted that the methods of ethnic cleansing may change, but  they are still consistent today.  Moreover, against this background,  the superpowers support Azerbaijan in achieving this goal.