According to the report, the sources noted that since his enthronement last November, Coptic Orthodox Pope Tawadros II was keen to held regular talks with "the large (Egyptian) minorities" that would serve the issues of the Copts. The Pope is also holding confidential contacts to Shī'ah leaders in Egypt to avoid information leak to the media.  The report suggests that Bahā' Anwar Muhammad, official spokesman for Egyptian Shiites, has not been invited to attend last Christmas celebration, as evidence that Pope Tawadros intends to keep the negotiations with the Shiites undisclosed.

With respect to the upcoming parliamentary elections, the current talks aim to unify positions and to determine the spectrum of the civil society, which will be supported by the Shiites and the Church to confront the Islamists.

For his side, the spokesman of the Shiites in Egypt and a member of the supreme body of the party "Ghad al-Thawrah" (The Revolution’s Tomorrow Party) Bahāꞌ Anwar Muhammad stated that talks among Shiites, Christians and Sufīs are held to coordinate their stance in preparation for the upcoming parliamentary elections. He pointed out that the idea to form this alliance emerged out of the fears that Egyptian Shiites have of what he called "the religious and security persecution", and the Copts fearing for their rights, summing these up as "minority culture".

Bahāꞌ, further, said that the tripartite alliance’s talks (Sufī-Shī'ah-Coptic) run through Bishop Mattias of al-Mahallah al-Kubrá Diocese and a number of Coptic activists.  He also pointed that the political activist and NSF member Karīmah al-Hifnāwī and (chairman of the Hisb al-Ishtirākī) Ahmad Bahāꞌ Sha’bān are among the group.

He stressed that the alliance seeks to focus on a certain number of provinces and regions where the alliance members enjoy large popularity like the governorate of Aswan, some Upper Egypt governorates, as well as the Sharqia and Gharbia governorates, especially in the city of Tantā which has a large Coptic population (John 'Abd al-Malāk and Sarah Rashād, al-Misrīyun, Dec. 16, p. 1). Read original text in Arabic.