Determine if the sentence is true based on the text below:
Diplomacy is having a positive effect on a violent situation.

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.