"The incidents with the hooligans on one side, and these practically terrorist acts on the other side, shall not have any influence on the teams, or any influence on the bid activities of the English and German associations for the 2006 World Cup," he said on Saturday.
Blatter told a news conference the trouble in France would not have a bearing on how the FIFA Executive Committee vote in 2000 on which country is awarded the 2006 finals.
"The decision will be taken in 2000 and it depends at that time what the situation is with hooliganism or control of hooliganism in these two countries.
"But we should not mix the bad behaviour of people not linked with football with the work these two associations are doing in London and Frankfurt on their World Cup bids."
English hooligans were involved in rioting in Marseille at England's match against Tunisia on June 15, while German thugs fought with police when Germany played Yugoslavia in Lens last Sunday.
One policeman is in a coma with irreversible brain damage following an assault by Germans suspects, two of whom are being held in custody. There was also simmering unrest in Lens on Friday when England played Colombia.
Blatter said that as well as South Africa's declared interest in staging the 2006 finals, bids were also expected from Nigeria, Egypt and Morocco.
Brazil and Argentina are also known to be considering a joint bid for the finals.
But he ruled out any chance of China hosting the World Cup in the first decade of the new millennium.
Asia are due to host the 2002 finals, in Japan and South Korea. With the finals then due to be rotated around FIFA's confederations, there was no chance China could host the World Cup until 2018 at the earliest, he said.
Reuters
Outbreaks of hooliganism by English and German fans in France should not affect those nations' bids to stage the 2006 World Cup finals, FIFA president Sepp Blatter said.
