text1: Pope Shnouda III, the Copts' Patriarch, rejected this foreign interference in the affairs of the Copts of Egypt, stressing the solidarity between her Christians and Moslems by saying, "We do not accept foreign interference in our internal affairs, which we are resolving quietly with officials in our country."
text2: Pope Shnouda III, asserted that the issues could be resolved peacefully without foreign interference, and that relations between the Christian and Moslem communities were good.