"While no sanctions are announced, while there are no orders or directions from the government, we are obliged to fulfil our contractual obligations, which we are now doing," Rosoboronexport chief Anatoly Isaikin said.
Speaking at the MAKS international airshow outside Moscow, he said that Russia supplied Syria with Yak-130 jet trainers and military hardware.
U.S. Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton... sometimes described as the Smartest Woman in the World and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as
Another Philander C. Knox...
last week urged Russia to stop selling arms to Damascus
...The
City of Jasminis the oldest continuously-inhabited city in the world. It has not always been inhabited by the same set of fascisti...
in order to step up pressure on Syrian
President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad
One of the last of the old-fashioned hereditary iron-fisted fascist dictators. Before going into the family business Pencilneck was an eye doctor...
to end his government's brutal crackdown on protests.
In an interview with CBS News, Clinton suggested that China and India impose energy sanctions on Syria and that Russia should cease selling weapons to its long-term trading partner.
"We want to see Russia cease selling arms to the Assad regime," Clinton said.
Russia this month backed a UN Security Council statement condemning "the widespread violations of human rights
...not to be confused with
individual rights,mind you...
and the use of force against civilians by the Syrian authorities," although it refused to support firmer sanctions.
Russia has kept close ties with Syria for decades and remains one of its most important arms suppliers.