House debates

Tuesday, 23 September 2014

Adjournment

Qatar: FIFA World Cup

9:29 pm

Photo of Michael DanbyMichael Danby (Melbourne Ports, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary to the Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Hansard source

I am pleased today that Qatar has responded to claims by Germany's minister for international affairs by outlawing funding of terrorists from institutions and citizens in that country. Just today, the German FIFA delegate, Theo Zwanziger, said that the 2020 World Cup will never be played in Qatar. I noticed an Italian prosecutor brought a 350-page report to FIFA on the alleged corruption of the 2020 games bid. I call on FIFA to release that report to the international community in the spirit of transparency that seems so absent from Mr Blatter's incumbency.

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