United States/United Kingdom: US Won't Follow British Lead on Hezbollah Dialogue.

Section: General News - Two senior U.S. diplomats are due to arrive in Damascus Saturday in a visit upgrading the level of U.S.-Syrian contacts.

Officials here said the Obama administration has no intention of matching the British opening to Hezbollah, which has long been listed by the United States as a terrorist organization.

However the United States is not being publicly critical of the British move, and officials said they will be interested in the results, if any, of the British contacts.

The British government said Thursday it had authorized what were termed carefully selected contacts with Hezbollah's political wing, which is represented in …