James Morrison
Articles by James Morrison
Embassy Row
Carlos Pascual, the U.S. ambassador to Mexico who resigned last weekend in a diplomatic scandal that outraged officials south of the border, remains at the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City, where he is helping with a transition to a new chief of mission. Published March 24, 2011
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The Obama administration might seem confused about the war aims in Libya, but the British are as clear as Waterford crystal. Published March 22, 2011
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The Japanese ambassador says his distressed nation is grateful to Americans for their support for victims of the massive earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan on March 11. Published March 20, 2011
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In a gripping speech about "hell" in the sky and poisonous gas on the ground, the Iraqi ambassador this week commemorated the anniversary of Saddam Hussein's genocide against Iraqi Kurds. Published March 17, 2011
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Secret U.S. Embassy cables that implicated the president of Indonesia in widespread corruption sparked angry demonstrations this week in the capital, Jakarta, and reports of a billion-dollar lawsuit against the embassy. Published March 15, 2011
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The U.S. Embassy in Tokyo is searching for Americans in Japan and dispatching relief teams with military precision as U.S. diplomats respond to the devastating earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster that crippled America's closest Asian ally. Published March 13, 2011
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The U.S. ambassador to Japan rushed to Okinawa Thursday to apologize for insulting remarks attributed to a State Department official in Washington who reportedly called Okinawa residents "masters of manipulation and extortion" who are "too lazy" to grow their own vegetables. Published March 10, 2011
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President Obama is widely expected to appoint Commerce Secretary Gary F. Locke as the first Chinese-American ambassador to China to replace Jon Huntsman, who is retiring next month to consider running for the Republican presidential nomination. Published March 8, 2011
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The career ambassador whom Moammar Gadhafi appointed to replace diplomatic defectors at the United Nations is well-known in Washington, where he wooed oil executives and foreign policy analysts after the Libyan dictator ditched his weapons of mass destruction. Published March 6, 2011
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Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren says his country hopes the unrest sweeping the Arab world will produce democratic governments that pose no threat to the Jewish state. Published March 3, 2011
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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton will give "a gift to the mullahs" who oppress the Iranian people, if she fails to remove the Iranian resistance from the U.S. blacklist of terrorist groups, a visiting member of the European Parliament said Tuesday. Published March 1, 2011
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The Arab League ambassador to the United States said he would be comfortable with a limited and secular role for the shadowy Muslim Brotherhood in a new democratic Egyptian government. Published February 27, 2011
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Chinese censors scrubbed the name of U.S. Ambassador Jon Huntsman from Chinese-language Internet searches after he appeared in online videos near a pro-democracy demonstration in Beijing on Sunday. Published February 24, 2011
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Turkish Ambassador Namik Tan dodged tough questions from an Armenian-American journalist who pressed him on the destruction of churches in Turkey and the Armenian "genocide" in World War I. Published February 22, 2011
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The former U.S. ambassador to Italy described Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi as a self-obsessed politician who has offended Italians of "nearly every demographic" and damaged Italy's reputation in Europe and Washington, where many U.S. officials see a "comic tone" to his behavior. Published February 20, 2011
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Muslim extremists linked to Hezbollah and al Qaeda are operating in Chile, where they provide "significant" financial aid to the Arab terrorist groups, according to the U.S. Embassy in Santiago. Published February 17, 2011
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The former U.S. ambassador to Bahrain called King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa a pro-American, reform-minded monarch in a secret diplomatic cable 14 months ago, but now the ruler of the key Persian Gulf kingdom is facing massive street demonstrations and demands for an end to his dynasty. Published February 15, 2011
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The ambassador from the Ivory Coast, like the defeated president who appointed him, is refusing to give up his position in Washington, even though the State Department recognized a new envoy named by the internationally recognized winner of November's presidential election. Published February 13, 2011
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President Obama this week renominated a prominent Christian pastor to serve as ambassador for international religious freedom in a move that reignited a debate over whether she is qualified for the high-profile position that has been vacant for two years. Published February 10, 2011
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The former U.S. ambassador to Luxembourg, a close political ally of President Obama's, was so "aggressive, bullying, hostile and intimidating" to her staff that she drove several top diplomats to appeal for transfers from the posh northern European nation to Iraq and Afghanistan, according to a State Department report. Published February 8, 2011
