President Obama addressed the attack Tuesday night on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya in which U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three career foreign-service officers were killed, saying that “justice will be done” in finding the individuals responsible for the attack.

“There is no justification for this kind of senseless violence,” Obama said in the White House Rose Garden, with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton standing behind him. (See Clinton’s remarks from earlier.)

As Clinton did, Obama noted Stevens’ longstanding role in U.S.-Libya diplomacy, especially his role as the top American envoy in Benghazi during last year’s bloody civil war in which a popular uprising toppled the regine of Moammar el-Qaddafi.

“Chris died in a country that is still struggling to emerge from the recent experience of war,” Obama said. “It is especially tragic that Chris died in Benghazi, a city he helped to save.”

Obama also made sure to differentiate between the armed mob that carried out the consulate attack and Lybia’s government and population at large.

“This attack will not break the bonds between the United States and Libya,” the president said, noting that Libyan troops helped fight back the attack on the consulate and that “Libyans carried Ambassador Stevens’s body to the hospital.”

Obama did not take any questions following his brief statement, although after promising that the United States will pursue the perpetrators of the attack, at least one reporter asked if the president considers the slaying of Stevens and the three foreign service officers an act of war.

Following his remarks, Obama and Clinton returned to the State Department.