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.

Based on that paragraph can we conclude that this sentence is true?
In the past 24 hours violence has gone down
Yes