These statements capture the indelible influence of the Islamic religious law Shari'a -- the Cairo Declaration claiming supremacy based on "divine revelation, " which renders sacred and permanent the notion of inequality between the community of Allah, and the infidels.

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In her opening statement, Ambassador Maria Francesca Spatolisano from the European Union underlined the importance of this conference as a follow up to the Cairo declaration adopted at the Second European Union-League of Arab States Foreign Affairs Ministerial meeting in Egypt in November.

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