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FIFA criticizes Nobel Peace Center for canceled project
(MENAFN- Arab News) ZURICH: FIFA has criticized the Nobel Peace Center for lacking fair play by ending their partnership and announcing the split via the media.
Football's governing body is 'reluctant to accept this unilateral approach' to the 'Handshake for Peace' project.
FIFA says 'this action does not embody the spirit of fair play especially as it obstructs the promotion of the key values of peace-building and anti-discrimination.'
On Monday the Nobel center announced it would 'terminate the cooperation with FIFA.'
No reason was given though FIFA is implicated in corruption investigations by American and Swiss federal agencies.
Last week Interpol suspended ties with FIFA and the Vatican stopped a charity project with South America's football body.
FIFA President Sepp Blatter has heavily promoted the handshake gesture since the Nobel partnership began in 2012.
Blatter no going
FIFA President Sepp Blatter will not go to New Zealand for the Under-20 World Cup final on Saturday.
Amid speculation that Blatter risks arrest in many countries FIFA confirmed on Tuesday that he will remain in his native Switzerland instead of traveling to Auckland.
'Due to his current commitments in Zurich the FIFA president will not be able to travel to New Zealand to attend the final' the governing body said in a statement.
Blatter's plans have been uncertain since seven football officials were arrested in FIFA's home city three weeks ago in an American investigation of corruption. They face extradition to the United States.
The FIFA president who has announced plans to resign within months is a target of the widening case a law enforcement official has confirmed to the Associated Press.
Blatter is working on a slate of modernizing reforms he hopes to get approved at a special election meeting of 209 member federations. It should be held sometime from December to March.
He would typically attend at least one match at the two-yearly under-20 event but is skipping the whole tournament.
Blatter saw the opening ceremony and first two matches at the 2013 tournament in Kayseri Turkey making a trans-Atlantic trip during the troubled Confederations Cup in Brazil.
He went to Bogota for the 2011 final.
FIFA said on Tuesday that Blatter could yet attend the Women's World Cup final on July 5 in Vancouver Canada.
Football's governing body is 'reluctant to accept this unilateral approach' to the 'Handshake for Peace' project.
FIFA says 'this action does not embody the spirit of fair play especially as it obstructs the promotion of the key values of peace-building and anti-discrimination.'
On Monday the Nobel center announced it would 'terminate the cooperation with FIFA.'
No reason was given though FIFA is implicated in corruption investigations by American and Swiss federal agencies.
Last week Interpol suspended ties with FIFA and the Vatican stopped a charity project with South America's football body.
FIFA President Sepp Blatter has heavily promoted the handshake gesture since the Nobel partnership began in 2012.
Blatter no going
FIFA President Sepp Blatter will not go to New Zealand for the Under-20 World Cup final on Saturday.
Amid speculation that Blatter risks arrest in many countries FIFA confirmed on Tuesday that he will remain in his native Switzerland instead of traveling to Auckland.
'Due to his current commitments in Zurich the FIFA president will not be able to travel to New Zealand to attend the final' the governing body said in a statement.
Blatter's plans have been uncertain since seven football officials were arrested in FIFA's home city three weeks ago in an American investigation of corruption. They face extradition to the United States.
The FIFA president who has announced plans to resign within months is a target of the widening case a law enforcement official has confirmed to the Associated Press.
Blatter is working on a slate of modernizing reforms he hopes to get approved at a special election meeting of 209 member federations. It should be held sometime from December to March.
He would typically attend at least one match at the two-yearly under-20 event but is skipping the whole tournament.
Blatter saw the opening ceremony and first two matches at the 2013 tournament in Kayseri Turkey making a trans-Atlantic trip during the troubled Confederations Cup in Brazil.
He went to Bogota for the 2011 final.
FIFA said on Tuesday that Blatter could yet attend the Women's World Cup final on July 5 in Vancouver Canada.
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