On August 3, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee will vote on Matthew Bryza’s nomination to the post of U.S. Ambassador to Azerbaijan.

As NEWS.am reported earlier, commenting on Bryza’s confirmation hearing, Armenian National Committee of America Executive Director Aram Hamparian said, “Matt Bryza’s testimony unfortunately raised more questions than it answered, underscoring our longstanding concern that he is not the right person to represent the United States in Azerbaijan.”

“Today’s hearing shed long overdue sunshine on a number of serious shortcomings in Mr. Bryza’s diplomatic activities, starting with his consistent failure to challenge Azerbaijan's belligerence, the dramatic under-spending of Congressional allocations for Nagorno-Karabakh, and including, of course, his unwillingness to forcefully confront Baku’s video-taped destruction of the Djulfa Armenian cemetery. In terms of addressing conflict of interest issues, his responses also fell short,” reads the statement by ANCA.