AlQa'dah 27, 1433, Oct 13, 2012, SPA - The State Department Friday called Russia's policy toward Syria “morally bankrupt," following the seizure by Turkey of Russian radar parts from a Syrian plane headed to Damascus. “We've had a pretty comprehensive accounting from the Turkish side of precisely what they found," State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland told reporters. “But I'm going to leave it to them to share in public what they found. I think Prime Minister Erdogan made some pretty definitive statements about that. We have no doubt that this was serious military equipment." “We have been in contact with the Russians about it as well. As you know, we were pretty definitive publicly about our grave concern that this kind of activity continues, and particularly by a [U.N.] Security Council member," Nuland said. Asked by a reporter whether the Security Council has imposed any sanctions on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime, Nuland said that it has not, calling the fact that China and Russia have blocked the possibility of sanctions “morally bankrupt." “There are no Security Council sanctions on Syria because Security Council members Russia and China continue to block them. Everybody else on the Security Council is doing what it can unilaterally to ensure that the Assad regime is not getting support from the outside," Nuland said.
