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James Morrison

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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 until his transfer to the Metro desk as the Virginia editor. Mr. Morrison returned to the Foreign Desk in 1993 to launch the Embassy Row column, a diplomatic news column primarily focusing on foreign ambassadors in the United States and U.S. ambassadors abroad. The column is the only one of its kind in U.S. journalism.
Mr. Morrison was born on Nov. 27, 1950, in Charleston, W.Va. His father worked as a printer for the Charleston Gazette and later relocated to Washington to work as a photo engraver at The Washington Post until his retirement. Before joining The Washington Times, James Morrison was a reporter for the Springfield, Va., Times, the Northern Virginia Sun and the Alexandria Gazette. He attended American University.

Articles by James Morrison

Embassy Row

The ambassador from Sri Lanka sent New Year's greetings this week to immigrants from the South Asian island nation living in the United States, noting that this was the first time in 26 years that the Buddhist and Hindu holiday was celebrated in peace.

April 15, 2010

Embassy Row

Anatoly Dobrynin, a Soviet ambassador to the United States during the darkest days of the Cold War, was honored in Washington less than three years ago as the "world champion among ambassadors."

April 13, 2010

Embassy Row

The U.S. ambassador to India is promising authorities in New Delhi that the White House is reviewing their request to question a Pakistani-American man who pleaded guilty to helping terrorists attack the Indian city of Mumbai in 2008.

April 8, 2010

Embassy Row

The Turkish ambassador is returning to Washington this week, a month after he was recalled to protest a congressional resolution on the Armenian "genocide," and the prime minister is planning to attend a White House summit on nuclear security next week.

April 6, 2010

Embassy Row

The co-chairmen of a congressional human rights panel worry that the terrorist bombings in Russia are the start of a campaign to attack "soft targets" and kill civilians who have nothing to do with Moscow's efforts to crush Muslim separatists in Chechnya.

April 1, 2010

Embassy Row

The Iraqi ambassador to Washington is praising the elections in his homeland as proof that Iraqis once again defied terrorists who threatened to disrupt the March 7 vote.

March 30, 2010

Embassy Row

A leading Iranian exile in Washington is praising Congress for a resolution demanding that Iraq fulfill its promises to protect Iranian dissidents held in a former rebel camp north of Baghdad and guarantee that none will be deported to Iran to face certain execution.

March 25, 2010

Embassy Row

The British ambassador called for continued U.S. leadership in world affairs, telling the Winston Churchill Foundation that Europe needs America today as much as Britain's war-time prime minister needed U.S. help against Nazi Germany.

March 23, 2010

Embassy Row

Israel's ambassador in Washington is hotly denying that he ever said his country is facing the "most severe" crisis in U.S.-Israeli relations in 35 years.

March 18, 2010

Embassy Row

The leaders of a congressional human rights panel Monday denounced Azerbaijan after a court denied the appeal of two young bloggers critical of the government who were imprisoned on what critics said were trumped-up charges of assault.

March 16, 2010

Embassy Row

Turkey remains angered over a congressional resolution recognizing the killings of Armenians in 1915 as genocide, threatening this week to keep its new ambassador to the United States at home until the measure is defeated.

March 11, 2010

Embassy Row

A fundraising dinner at the Washington home of the ambassador of Kuwait was held to honor Greg Mortenson, an American adventurer whose exploits transformed him into a philanthropist building schools in remote regions of Afghanistan and Pakistan.

March 9, 2010

Embassy Row

The Pakistani ambassador hopes recent political and military cooperation between his country and the United States signals an end to the "yo-yo" diplomacy that has long marred the bilateral relations.

March 4, 2010

Embassy Row

The U.S. ambassador to China says he is "very optimistic" about America's relations with China this year, but the Chinese ambassador in Washington sounded annoyed and petulant about the future in one of his last interviews before returning home.

March 2, 2010

Embassy Row

Rarely do diplomatic disputes get more vocal than expressions of "concern," or even "grave concern." However, the Internet is roiling with accounts of angry words and a physical clash between a U.S. and Turkish ambassador during Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's Middle East visit earlier this month.

February 25, 2010

Embassy Row

A powerful Greek-American lobby is demanding that President Obama recall the U.S. ambassador to Turkey, accusing the envoy of making "unacceptable, disappointing and damaging" remarks that "undermine the administration's position on Cyprus."

February 23, 2010

Embassy Row

A former Latin American ambassador in Washington revealed a crack in the support for Hugo Chavez by publicizing a letter this week from former allies who called the socialist Venezuelan president "autocratic" and "totalitarian" and demanded his resignation.

February 18, 2010

Embassy Row

Pakistan is urging Washington to help build up its military to counter massive defense spending by India and talking with the Obama administration about reaching a civilian nuclear power deal like the one President George W. Bush negotiated with New Delhi, according to Pakistan's ambassador to the United States.

February 16, 2010

Gentleman loves the ‘80 — the 1780s

On a visit to Old Town Alexandria two decades ago, Canadian tourist Doreen Scott got an unexpected lesson in American history at Gadsby's Tavern, the 18th-century inn that hosted many of America's founding fathers.

December 20, 2009