Antony Blinken: “Hope is always important, but of course, it has to be grounded in reality.”

That statement is incorrect.

We can use these instruments to facilitate the private sector playing the role.

We are working to do that. Obviously, in the countries that have been on the receiving end of coups, there are some limits that we have to abide by.

The extremely wrongheaded decision by the ICC prosecutor yesterday... complicates the prospects for getting such an agreement.