Thank you to our officials for appearing before us today.
The most recent conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh started September 19. On the same day, Canada issued a statement that basically called on the Azerbaijanis to refrain from any actions or activities that would be a risk to the safety of the civilian population and to work in good faith to restore humanitarian access to the region. However, six days after that relatively benign statement, Canada's ambassador and permanent representative to the United Nations described the situation in Nagorno-Karabakh as “a complete failure of global diplomacy in the face of ethnic cleansing”. The term “ethnic cleansing” was used by our official representative to the United Nations.
Is it Canada's position that ethnic cleansing has taken place or is taking place, or both, in the region?