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“At least five U.S. embassies could begin the New Year without an official ambassador at the helm, due to the ongoing feud between the State Department and the Senate over several ambassadorial nominees and secret Senate holds”, says the article of the US “Foreign Policy” magazine.

If Congress doesn’t act by the end of the year, there will be no U.S. ambassador in Russia, India, the Czech Republic, El Salvador, and Azerbaijan. Three of the current ambassadors at those posts (Czech, El Salvador, and Azerbaijan) were placed there by President Barack Obama through recess appointments that expire at the end of this month, but face stiff opposition in the Senate and may not be confirmed for their posts: “Another U.S. ambassador who may finish his activity this month is Matthew Bryza, US ambassador to Azerbaijan. His nomination was being held up last year by two Democrats, Sens. Barbara Boxer and Robert Menendez, who are seen to be representing the Armenian voting constituencies unhappy with the administration’s policy opposing a congressional resolution condemning the 1915 Armenian genocide”. The U.S. Azeris Network (USAN), an Azeri diaspora group, has started a public awareness campaign to push for Bryza’s confirmation.

Matthew Bryza didn’t want to comment this issue to APA: “It is needed to wait for the decision of the Senate”.

APA

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