The use of diplomacy in this situation has already, well, it goes hour-by-hour and day-by-day now. It's a very tense situation there. But in the last 24 hours there has been some subsiding of the violence there. It's too much to hope that this is going to continue, but I do hope that it will continue.
More than simple diplomacy is required to resolve a violent situation that has been going on for more than a day.
The speaker has specifically stated that they doubt that diplomacy alone will resolve the situation.