Senate hearing on Azerbaijan envoy due next week
BAKU – A US Senate panel will hold another hearing on Matthew Bryza’s appointment as the US ambassador to Azerbaijan on September 21.
The discussions at the Foreign Relations Committee will be chaired by Senator John Kerry.
On the same day, the Committee will also review four nominations for the posts of US ambassadors to several other countries.
The post of US ambassador to Azerbaijan has been vacant since July 2009. In May President Barack Obama nominated Bryza, who was one of the most visible US officials in the Caucasus region during the Bush administration, serving as deputy assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs. He was also the US co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group, which seeks to broker a settlement to the dispute between Armenia and Azerbaijan. Early in August the US Senate panel postponed the hearing on the White House nomination.
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