article_snippet: Sepp Blatter ' visited Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani, who has previously acknowledged setbacks in development work that according to International Trade Union Confederation has already cost 1,000 migrant worker lives.
article_snippet: the Emir said last year that new legal frameworks have been introduced to improve the situation on the ground.
article_snippet: Sepp Blatter ' said Sepp Blatter ' wanted to meet Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani in person before next week's meeting .
article_snippet: Sepp Blatter ' said: 'It was important for me to have an opportunity to get the latest information directly from the highest political authority, ahead of the FIFA executive committee meeting in Zurich next week. '
article_snippet: It is encouraging to hear the Emir's personal commitment to workers' welfare and to get a sense of the improvements planned for all workers in Qatar '.
highlights_snippet: Sepp Blatter 'encouraged' by the Emir's 'personal commitment to welfare'
  
highlights_snippet: But Sepp Blatter ' insists more progress must be made .