John Kerry: “Without those talks, without parallel political as well as security talks, the chances of ending the hostilities are…”

It's very obvious that there are huge threats here.

you cannot just sit there anywhere and wish that things are going to be as they have been historically.

But, we could with battery. We could with-- there's ways to make that work.

The Administration is determined to try to stabilize what has been, particularly recently, a very unstable situation.