The White house mourned Egypt's Coptic Orthodox Pope Shenouda III and said in a short statement "Egypt and the whole world have lost a religious preacher who cannot be forgotten".

Shaykh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of the United Arab Emirates sent a consolation cable to Field Marshal Husayn Tantāwī, offering his sincere condolences to the Egyptian people and the Copts.

For his part, Shaykh Sabāh al-Ahmad al-Jābir as-Sabāh, the Emir of Kuwait, expressed his heartfelt condolences on the death of the pope.

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