On August 3, U.S. Senate Foreign relations Committee chairman John Kerry postponed a committee vote on the nomination of U.S. Ambassador to Azerbaijan designate Matt Bryza in response to a hold over request by Senator Barbara Boxer.

Matt Bryza's troubling diplomatic record and his conflicts of interest issues in regards to his bias towards Turkey's cycle of impunity and denial of Turkey's crimes of Genocide and Turkey's illegal invasion and occupation of Cyprus makes him an unsuitable representative for America in any post, the Cyprus Action Network of America (CANA) said.

CANA calls on Greek-Cypriot Americans to strongly oppose the Bryza nomination based on his support of the deeply flawed Annan plan.