Mario Giro, of Comunità di Sant’Egidio, said that the delegation "expressed and explained to the Cypriot delegates the purposes of the meeting and then spoke of the spirit of Assisi" and asked both negotiators "what they thought of the Cypriot crisis and the negotiations". During the talks, they also outlined some "lines of work", especially the restoration of the holy places (churches and mosques), because, as history shows added Riccardi , "violence against the churches and the holy places always goes hand in hand with these ethnic wars".
