The papal nuncio to Egypt Monsignor Michael Fitzgerald said endeavors are still going on to re-establish relations between the Azhar and the Roman Catholic Church in the Vatican after Pope Benedict XVI gave statements misunderstood to be offensive to Muslims.

Fitzgerald expected the ties binding the two sides to be back again.

"There has to be a line drawn between the relations between the Azhar and the Vatican as religious establishments and Egypt and the Vatican as states," he said.