Doha - (AFP) - The Qatari Minister of Labor announced to AFP that his country rejects calls for the establishment of a special fund to compensate migrant workers who died or were harmed on its lands during the construction of huge projects to host the World Cup, denouncing Doha's exposure to "racist" attacks.

Minister Ali bin Smaikh Al-Marri said in an exclusive interview with AFP, his first with an international media outlet, that Doha has for years had a fund to compensate migrant workers, through which it has paid hundreds of millions of dollars in compensation and aid.