(AFP) "Syria's behavior has not met our hopes and expectations over the past 20 months - and Syria's actions have not met its international obligations," U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told the Lebanese newspaper An-Nahar in an interview published Friday. "We are not engaging for engagement's sake. We are engaging to advance our interests," she said. "Syria lives with consequences of pursuing policies that are outside established international norms - which is largely why the region's economic development of the past decade has left Syria behind," she said. She also pledged: "Our engagement with Syria will never come at Lebanon's expense. Nor will it come at the expense of holding Syria accountable for its behavior."
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