"A boycott will never give any positive effect," Blatter told the R-Sport news agency in comments translated into Russian. "We trust the country, its government."
"FIFA unconditionally supports the staging of the World Cup by Russia," Blatter added.
Diplomatic
sources said last month that European nations were discussing a
possible boycott of the World Cup because of the conflict in eastern
Ukraine.
Some politicians in Britain, Germany and the United States have called on FIFA to withdraw the World Cup from Russia.
"When
we receive letters from North America (asking for the World Cup to
withdrawn), we tell them that this is football," Blatter said.
"Russia
is the world's biggest country. You know, Russia is in the eye of the
international media. Football can not only unite Russia but show the
whole world that it is stronger than any protest movement."
He
compared the situation with Russia's hosting of the Winter Olympics in
the Black Sea resort of Sochi this year, when Western leaders stayed
away.
"There was the same
situation ahead of Sochi, but neither during nor after the Games, has
there been a single word against these Games."
Blatter
was in Moscow to check up on Russia's preparations for the sporting
extravaganza and to attend a ceremony for the official launch of the
championship logo.
- 'Ahead of schedule' -
Blatter said he was happy with Russia's work on the 2018 World Cup. Twelve stadiums in 11 cities are to be used.
"I
can say that in comparison with Brazil, Russia is considerably ahead of
schedule with four years remaining before the event's start," Blatter
said.
Blatter
toured Moscow's iconic Luzhniki stadium that is undergoing a major
rehaul and met with Russian President Vladimir Putin, who pledged to get
the work done on time.
"We
have no doubt that Russia can complete all the work on schedule. And, of
course, at the highest level of quality," Putin told the FIFA
delegation.
The FIFA president
was set to attend a glitzy launch ceremony Tuesday to present the 2018
World Cup logo. The ceremony, starting at 2030 GMT, will see the logo
projected onto the facade of Moscow's legendary Bolshoi Theatre.
"Of
course I already saw the logo and I liked it very much," Blatter said.
"It displays Russia's heart and soul and reflects the country's great
culture."
The FIFA boss added
that the opening ceremony of the 2018 World Cup could take place a day
ahead of the tournament's opening match.
"It's possible," he said."We tried to do that at the 2006 World Cup in Germany but it didn't work well.
"But I'm confident that in 2018 the ceremony should go off earlier. There are three stadiums in Moscow where we can hold the event's opening ceremony."
FIFA secretary general Jerome Valcke, who is also in Moscow, said the football's governing body was happy with an inspection tour of the Russia's World Cup venues this month.
The
joint FIFA and local organising committee group went to the
construction site of the Zenit arena in Saint Petersburg, the Kazan
arena, which is already operational, the Sochi Olympics Fisht arena and
the reconstruction of Moscow's Luzhniki stadium and Spartak Moscow's
42,000-seat Otkrytie arena, which went into service in September.
"The inspection tour was very well-organised," Valcke told reporters.
"We're completely satisfied with all of the facilities of the World Cup in Russia.
"Russia has done a great amount of preparation work at all of the levels."
The
2018 World Cup will take place in Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Kazan,
Nizhny Novgorod, Saransk, Kaliningrad, Volgograd, Yekaterinburg, Samara,
Sochi and Rostov-on-Don.
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