to prevent new devastating wars and the revival of barbaric ideologies advocating violence, aggression and racial superiority.

Nobody should have any illusion about the possibility of gaining military superiority over Russia. We will never allow this to happen.

In line with international law, only the U.N. Security Council could sanction the use of force against a sovereign state. Any other pretext or method which might be used to justify the use of force against an independent sovereign state are inadmissible and can only be interpreted as an aggression.

There was no violence, no aggression and we find imposing a banning order would be disproportionate on this occasion.

The philosophy of FIFA is to expand world soccer space, to spread out the world football space.

Political activities in Russia should be as transparent as possible. Financing political activities from abroad is something the state should keep an eye on.