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Blatter calls emergency meeting

FIFA president Sepp Blatter is to hold an emergency Executive Committee meeting of FIFA on May 3 to explain his decision last week to suspend an investigation into FIFA's finances.

Blatter called for the suspension on Friday because he said the enquiry by the FIFA ad hoc Internal Audit Committee was a breach of confidentiality.

But over the weekend, UEFA president Lennart Johansson and a majority of ExCom members felt it was necessary for Blatter to explain himself.

"The audit committe must be allowed to complete its work as a matter of urgency," said Johansson.

"Once again he [Blatter] is trying to ride roughshod over the FIFA executive committee," ExCom member Per Ravn Omdal, added.

The May 3 meeting will also discuss the insolvency of KirchMedia and the transfer of the TV rights of the 2002 and 2006 World Cups to Kirch's sport subsidiary.