Manama: FIFA on Thursday confirmed the suspension of both the Kuwait and Guatemala football federations at its annual Congress in Bahrain.
Delegates voted overwhelmingly to retain the suspensions against both federations, which were imposed in Kuwait's case in 2015 and Guatemala in 2016.
The 211 delegate nations able to vote backed by a 99 per cent majority to continue to exclude the central American nation and 96 per cent for the Gulf state.
Kuwait was suspended because of government interference.
Guatemala was suspended from international competition after it rejected a FIFA proposal to extend a "normalisation committee" imposed because of its involvement in the corruption scandal that has rocked world football's governing body.
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