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.