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The meeting comes midway through Blatter's promised two-year campaign to cleanse and modernize FIFA, guided by an independent panel of experts chaired by Swiss law professor Mark Pieth.
Pieth and members of his team gave cautious approval last month, after the scope and pace of the first phase of reforms was criticized by some as less than hoped for.
Still, the 76-year-old Blatter will take center stage in Budapest, exactly one year after he was re-elected to a fourth and final four-year presidential term with FIFA in crisis and his reputation at risk.
"We have been hit and I personally have been slapped. I don't want that ever again," Blatter said then in Zurich, days after his only election rival, Mohamed bin Hammam, withdrew following accusations of bribing Caribbean voters.
The election scandal came six months after the 2018 and 2022 World Cup hosting rights were awarded to Russia and Qatar, following widespread allegations of wrongdoing by several members of FIFA's executive committee.
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