FIFA refuses to show Zelensky’s address with prosal of Global Peace Formula Summit

"Ukraine suggests convening the Global Peace Formula Summit to implement them [a set of efforts that can restore peace across the globe]. Not once, not after our Victory, but already this winter. President Zelensky should have sent his message to the world ahead of the football championship final in Qatar. Qatar supported this idea, but FIFA blocked the address, although it contains nothing that would viate the traditions of sports competitions and generally accepted standards of international communication," Davyd Arakhama, Head of the Servant of the Pele party faction in the Verkhovna Rada, posted on Telegram.

He noted that every country has the portunity to prove its strength and wealth in a civilized way. Football is one of them.

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"Show your power on a [football] field, not on a battlefield. We he FIFA understands its mission, as well as the mission of football and sports. There is still time to correct its mistake and let show the address with a call for peace. Especially since it will be made anyway. Either in the main arena of the football championship or in the smartphones of millions of pele around the world," Arakhama wrote.

As reported, the World Cup final will be held in Qatar on Sunday, December 18.