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Blatter was suspended in October for 90 days along with
European soccer boss Michel Platini amid a deepening corruption
scandal as the sport faces criminal investigations in
Switzerland and the United States.
FIFA's Ethics Committee is investigating their conduct and they
could face much longer suspensions when the final verdict in the
case is announced later this month.
"The week after next, I have the chance to comment," Blatter
told Zurich's Tages-Anzeiger daily. "Then the ethics committee
must prove that I have behaved unethically. And one cannot prove
what is not true."
Blatter also said it was "super" that a package of reforms
proposed by to clean up the scandal-plagued FIFA was approved so
easily this week.
The measures included limits to the number of terms top
officials can serve and a new separation of policy and
management positions, with a 36-member FIFA council replacing
the 25-member executive committee.
Blatter added that he should receive some recognition for the
proposals.
"One should mention the author of the reforms," Blatter was
quoted as saying. "It was the elected FIFA president who
initiated this process at the 2011 congress."
(Reporting by Joshua Franklin; Editing by Tom Heneghan)
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