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We don’t think it’s part of Fifa’s mandate to give such a prize. ... This peace prize given at the [World Cup] draw in Washington was a breach of Fifa’s own statutes of political neutrality and there was a lack of legal process within Fifa.

-- Norwegian Football Federation President Lise Klaveness, on wanting the abolition of the FIFA Peace Prize because it breaches the world governing body’s rules on political neutrality.

London TIMES, 4/27