FIFA said yesteday it was lifting the suspension of El Salvador's FA with immediate effect, after the Salvadoran authorities agreed to its requests surrounding the registration of the association.

"As the two conditions set by FIFA have been met, the FIFA Emergency Committee today on 27 May 2010 decided to lift the suspension of the Salvadoran Football Association with immediate effect," it said in a statement.

FIFA had decided on May 10 to suspend the association "until the authorities formally accepted the legitimacy" of the Salvadoran football association's normalisation committee as well as registered the association's new statutes.

On May 17, the Salvadoran authorities amended the law to comply with the requests, said FIFA.

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