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Matthew Bryza: so-called elections in Karabakh are illegitimate

Matthew Bryza: so-called elections in Karabakh are illegitimate

Nagorno-Karabakh and the seven regions surrounding it remain part of Azerbaijan, so the so-called elections will not be recognized as carrying legal weight or constitute support, the former US Assistant Secretary for the South Caucasus, former US …

Matthew Bryza: no need for US assistance to Azerbaijan anymore

Matthew Bryza: no need for US assistance to Azerbaijan anymore

The Azerbaijani authorities have improved the economic situation in the country, so it doesn't need US assistance anymore, the former deputy assistant of the US secretary of state for the South Caucasus, former US ambassador to Azerbaijan and director of the International Center for Defense Studies in Tallinn, Matthew Bryza, said, commenting on the US decision to reduce the financial assistance to Azerbaijan, Armenia and Turkey.

Ex-Ambassador Bryza says U.S. needs to pay more attention to South Caucasus

Ex-Ambassador Bryza says U.S. needs to pay more attention to South Caucasus

U.S. ex-Ambassador to Baku Matthew Bryza said in an interview with Vestnik Kavkaza that American leaders would sooner or later recognize strategic interests around Azerbaijan. He predicts that strategic thinkers would start paying the republic more attention and the situation would improve.

U.S. ex-ambassador says most UN resolutions are ignored

U.S. ex-ambassador says most UN resolutions are ignored

U.S. ex-Ambassador to Azerbaijan Matthew Bryza told Vestnik Kavkaza that most resolutions of the UN Security Council were unfulfilled. He noted that the resolutions passed on Nagorno-Karabakh between 30 April and 12 November 1993 had not been realized because organizations of Armenian diasporas, such as the Armenian National Congress in the U.S., started a campaign to depict Azerbaijan as the aggressor and Armenia as the victim.

Persecution of functionaries in Georgia seems suspicious to US

Persecution of functionaries in Georgia seems suspicious to US

Matthew Bryza, US ex-Deputy Assistant Secretary of Sate, said that the constant detention of high-ranking officials in Georgia seemed suspicious, Georgia Online reports.He claimed that often in the West if new authorities organize trials of …

Israeli-Turkish gas pipeline project may revive Nabucco West

According to US ex-Ambassador to Azerbaijan Matthew Bryza’s statement last week, Turcas Holding, a subsidiary of the State Oil Company of the Azerbaijan Republic (SOCAR), offered to build a gas pipeline along the Mediterranean Sea to link the Israeli gas fields and the Turkish port. Both Israel and Turkey received the offer.

Diplomacy for sale

Diplomacy for sale

Recently in the Western and American press cases of publishing overtly anti-Azerbaijani material have became numerous.

US ex-ambassador sees correlation of Nagorno-Karabakh and Armenian-Turkish conflict

 US ex-Ambassador Matthew Bryza said that the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and the Armenian-Turkish relations cannot be separated into different processes and the EU and US had made a big mistake in 2009 by separating them, APA reports.Bryza emphasized that settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict would help Armenia normalize relations with Turkey. 

Baku to host conference on EU – South Caucasus cooperation

 Baku will host a conference to discuss security integration of the EU and Azerbaijan, organized by the Azerbaijani Presidential Center for Strategic Studies and the European Center for Politics. Farhad Mamedov, director of the presidential center, noted that the EU was activating in South Caucasus, Trend reports.Hans Martens, executive director of the European center, emphasized that economic growth in European countries had started increasing two years after the crisis.

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.

Bryza becomes board member of Jamestown Foundation

Bryza becomes board member of Jamestown Foundation

 Matthew Bryza, US former Ambassador to Azerbaijan and co-chair of OSCE Minsk Group, has become a board member of the Jamestown Foundation, ANSPRESS reports.Glen Howard, head of the foundation, noted that Bryza will help studies and analyses of Eurasia.