Armenia’s Public TV Company expresses regret that it is unable to send a delegation to the Azerbaijani capital of Baku to participate in the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest, according to a statement issued by the state broadcaster today.
“Though Azerbaijan’s authorities promised security guarantees for all participating countries, days earlier Azerbaijan’s president ‘made an exception’ for one of those countries, stating that Azerbaijan’s number one enemy are Armenians around the world. We can factually state that the president of the Eurovision host country officially declares that all Armenians, including those who were to have been included in the Eurovision delegation, are Azerbaijan’s enemies. Consequently, there’s no logic in sending a participant to a country where he will be greeted as an enemy. This for us is a matter of principle,” reads the statement.
Armenian News
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