The Office of the President of Ukraine commented on the decision of FIFA, which rejected the request of Volodymyr Zelensky to make a call for peace ahead of the 2022 World Cup final in Qatar.

The OP reported that the Qatari authorities supported Zelensky's initiative, but FIFA refused to broadcast the recorded video message, because it considers it "

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The Office of the President will distribute the video regardless of whether FIFA airs it. The decision to block it will show that FIFA has lost its valuable understanding of football as a game that brings people together and does not support existing divisions,"

It is also noted that CNN has already received a video of Zelensky's speech and published an excerpt from the text..

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The Office of the President gave FIFA time to change its mind. If Zelensky's speech is not broadcast, this video message will be made public separately..

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Recall that the teams of Argentina and France will meet in the final of the 2022 World Cup. The decisive match of the tournament will take place on Sunday, December 18, at the stadium " The game starts at 17:00 Kyiv time. Text online broadcast of the match Argentina - France is available on our website.