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SANTIAGO Chaussures Homme Nike Air Max 1 Woven Blanche Pas Cher , April 26 (Xinhua) -- FIFA President Gianni Infantino confirmed Wednesday in Santiago that the South American Football Confederation (Conmebol) will have 6.5 spots in the 2026 World Cup.


""The best football is played here in South America, and we hope that in 2018, a country from this continent wins the World Cup in Russia,"" said Infantino to the 67th Conmebol Congress in the Chilean capital.


Along with confirming the spaces for South American teams, the leader of world football insisted the 2026 World Cup would have 48 teams, up from the 32 teams in 2022.


In terms of the regional meeting, Infantino addressed the series of corruption scandals that beheaded many of FIFA and Conmebol's federations and highlighted that a new stage had begun.


""The new Conmebol is an organization that is working in a great way, and the improvements being seen in South American football are impressive,"" he said.


He also addressed the current situation at FIFA. ""The only thing that has changed about FIFA is that we are transparent. The financial situation is very solid, despite some believing the opposite. The budget cycle for four years is around 1.4 billion U.S. dollars, with 87 percent of this for football,"" he remarked.


Infantino also said he recognized that ""we are going through hard and very complicated moments...we must show that we are transparent and open above all.""



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JAKARTA， Dec. 29 (Xinhua) -- The Indonesian government on Thursday sent humanitarian assistance for Rohingya ethnic minority in Rakhine state of Myanmar.


Indonesian President Joko Widodo witnessed the shipment of 10 containers of foods and clothes assistance at port of Tanjung Priok， the busiest and most advanced Indonesian seaport.


"We send 10 containers of goods to Myanmar to help our brother in Rakhine State， particularly Muslim community，" President Joko Widodo told a press conference at the seaport.


Indonesia， the world's largest Muslim country， has taken part in efforts to resolve the humanitarian crisis of the Rohingya Muslim in Rakhine State.


The crisis had sparked protests outside embassy of Myanmar in Jakarta in recent months.


LONDON, Aug. 15 (Xinhua) -- Tuesday's announcement by the British government that it had a formal plan for trade with the European Union (EU) for a period after it formally leaves the bloc was met with cautious approval by business leaders while some other people criticized it.


London announced Tuesday that it wanted a temporary form of customs union to continue trading with the EU after the United Kingdom (UK) formally left the union, which is scheduled for the end of March 2019, in what it described as a transition deal.


Businesses, the City (British financial sector), and services had all expressed concerns that the departure of the UK from the EU would lead to a "cliff-edge scenario" where trade was governed by UK rules and then suddenly by less favorable World Trade Organization (WTO) rules, increasing bureaucracy, costs and tariffs when the exit took place.


This scenario would have been unwelcome, with businesses preferring the certainty of a negotiated settlement, which could provide better terms than WTO rules.


The British government's position paper is intended to provide a focus for discussion with the EU to achieve a negotiated deal, and crucially to avoid an imminent deadline.


Anastassia Beliakova, head of trade policy at business representative body British Chambers of Commerce (BCC), told Xinhua on Tuesday afternoon: "It remains to be seen how the plan would be worked out in the details, but it is certainly good news that this is clearly a priority for the UK government."


Surveys over the past year of BCC member companies, showed that two thirds of firms wanted some kind of transition deal after Britain formally left the EU, said Beliakova.


Clarity on the UK's future customs arrangement with the EU is significantly higher on their priority list than the swift negotiation of new free trade agreements, and businesses wanted to see the government's resources focused on the conclusion of a successful customs deal with the EU.


"Leaving the customs union means having to adapt to new bureaucratic processes that businesses are not currently used to, so today's paper which outlines intentions for a customs arrangement that would be as close as possible to what we currently have is welcome," said Beliakova.


British businesses would wish the process of leaving the EU to be as smooth and cheap as possible, said Beliakova.


A situation where Britain left the EU in 2019 and then sometime after that negotiated a new trade deal would not be the best solution, said Beliakova, because it would mean that businesses have to adapt to two new sets of circumstances with two new and different sets of costs.