Menendez may become head of US Senate Foreign Relations Committee

John Kerry, the new US Secretary of State to be appointed, may be replaced at the Senate Foreign Relations Committee by Robert Menendez (Democratic Party), RIA Novosti reports.

Menendez is an expert of Cuban affairs where he was born. He is notorious for anti-Iranian position and lobbying Armenia. He blocked appointment of Assistant Secretary of State Matthew Bryza as the US Ambassador to Azerbaijan for not recognizing the Armenian Genocide by Turkey.

Menendez was involved in a scandal. He had an illegal trainee working for him and involved in sexual crime.