FIFA will not reopen 2018 and 2022 World Cup votes
By JOHN LEICESTER, Associated Press
Dec 19, 2014 7:07 AM CST
FIFA president Sepp Blatter, center, leaves a hotel to lead a meeting in Marrakech, Morocco, Thursday, Dec. 18, 2014. Amid another crisis at FIFA, Blatter will lead an executive committee meeting on Thursday with the sudden resignation of ethics prosecutor Michael Garcia now on the agenda. (AP Photo/Christophe...   (Associated Press)

MARRAKECH, Morocco (AP) — Sepp Blatter says FIFA will not reopen the vote for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups, and will publish at least some of the confidential report in the bidding process.

At a FIFA executive committee meeting in Morocco, Blatter says "we will not revisit the 2018 and 2022 vote."

Blatter also says the executive committee agreed unanimously to publish ethics prosecutor Michael Garcia's report into the bidding that awarded the 2018 World Cup to Russia and the 2022 tournament to Qatar.

Blatter says the report will be published "in an appropriate form once the ongoing procedures against individuals are concluded."

It wasn't immediately clear when publication will happen.

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