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US says Russia arms shipment to Syria ’reprehensible’

01 June 2012 05:01 (UTC +04:00)

Baku-APA. A reported Russian arms shipment to Syria was "reprehensible" although it did not break any laws and the results of a Syrian government inquiry into a massacre in Houla was a "blatant lie", the US envoy to the United Nations said on Thursday, APA reports quoting Today’s Zaman.

"With respect to the reported docking of a ship carrying Russian arms, this is obviously of the utmost concern," US Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice told reporters.

"It is not technically obviously a violation of international law ... but it’s reprehensible that arms would continue to flow to a regime that is using such horrific and disproportionate force against its own people," she said.

"Our reaction to the Syrian characterization of what transpired in Houla, I think quite simply it’s another blatant lie," Rice said. A preliminary inquiry by Damascus showed anti-government armed groups killed 108 people in Houla on Friday.