Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, Mr. El Shafie, for your time today. I deeply appreciate your passion and your commitment to fighting for the rights of religious minorities.
Past Prime Minister of Iraq, Nouri al-Maliki, is blamed for creating favourable conditions for the formation of the Islamic State by ostracizing the Sunni Muslim community there through sectarian policies that favoured the Shia minority.
In what way do you see that economic hardship and political apathy for Sunni Muslims in Iraq are linked to the formation of the Islamic state, and how does that get addressed? What changes need to be made politically? Do you think that more favourable treatment of Sunnis would get rid of the support that the Islamic State seems to have?