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Panorama, Armenia
July 31 2010
Senate schedules Bryza confirmation vote after he gives incomplete and
evasive answers
Matthew Bryza, President Obama's controversial nominee to serve U.S.
Ambassador to Azerbaijan, responded to written questions submitted by
Senate majority leader Harry Reid, Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Chairman John Kerry, and Senators Barbara Boxer, Robert Menendez, and
Russ Feingold, reported the Armenian National Committee of America
(ANCA).
Senator John Kerry (D-MA), Chairman of the Foreign Relations
Committee, Friday announced that his panel will hold a vote next
Tuesday, August 3rd, on the confirmation of Matthew Bryza, as the U.S.
Ambassador to Azerbaijan, despite the nominee's evasive and incomplete
answers to a series of written questions submitted to him by Senate
Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) and key members of this influential
panel.
"Mr. Bryza's evasive, unresponsive, and incomplete written answers to
the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, even more than his spoken
testimony before this panel, confirm our reservations about his
troubling track record, and clearly confirm that he is not the right
person to serve as U.S. Ambassador to Azerbaijan," said Aram
Hamparian, Executive Director of the ANCA.
According to him, American diplomacy in the region would be well
served by a fresh start, with a new ambassador who doesn't have deep
ties into Azerbaijan's corrupt government, a history of turning a
blind-eye to Baku's aggression, or serious conflict of interest
issues.
From: A. Papazian
July 31 2010
Senate schedules Bryza confirmation vote after he gives incomplete and
evasive answers
Matthew Bryza, President Obama's controversial nominee to serve U.S.
Ambassador to Azerbaijan, responded to written questions submitted by
Senate majority leader Harry Reid, Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Chairman John Kerry, and Senators Barbara Boxer, Robert Menendez, and
Russ Feingold, reported the Armenian National Committee of America
(ANCA).
Senator John Kerry (D-MA), Chairman of the Foreign Relations
Committee, Friday announced that his panel will hold a vote next
Tuesday, August 3rd, on the confirmation of Matthew Bryza, as the U.S.
Ambassador to Azerbaijan, despite the nominee's evasive and incomplete
answers to a series of written questions submitted to him by Senate
Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) and key members of this influential
panel.
"Mr. Bryza's evasive, unresponsive, and incomplete written answers to
the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, even more than his spoken
testimony before this panel, confirm our reservations about his
troubling track record, and clearly confirm that he is not the right
person to serve as U.S. Ambassador to Azerbaijan," said Aram
Hamparian, Executive Director of the ANCA.
According to him, American diplomacy in the region would be well
served by a fresh start, with a new ambassador who doesn't have deep
ties into Azerbaijan's corrupt government, a history of turning a
blind-eye to Baku's aggression, or serious conflict of interest
issues.
From: A. Papazian