Mr. Morningstar, a political appointee and a major Democratic Party campaign contributor, is a former CEO for the CoStar commercial real estate corporation. He served in the Clinton administration as ambassador to the European Union and as a special adviser on the European and Eurasian countries that gained independence with the collapse of the Soviet Union.
He was also as a special adviser to President Clinton on Caspian Sea oil issues, and promoted the construction of an oil pipeline from the Azeri capital of Baku to the Turkish city of Ceyhan.
In remarks last week after arriving in Baku, Mr. Morningstar noted that he has been traveling to Azerbaijan since 1995.
“I can remember fondly my many visits with President Heydar Aliyev and, in recent years, with President Ilham Aliyev,” he said.
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James Morrison joined the The Washington Times in 1983 as a local reporter covering Alexandria, Va. A year later, he was assigned to open a Times bureau in Canada. From 1987 to 1989, Mr. Morrison was The Washington Times reporter in London, covering Britain, Western Europe and NATO issues. After returning to Washington, he served as an assistant foreign editor ...
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