Armenia 2012

"- The Armenian representative for the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest in Baku will be determined internally, as Gohar Gasparyan, representative of the public broadcaster ARMTV and head of the Armenian delegation, confirmed recently. The result of the internal selection will be announced close to the official deadline, no later than March 18th. The decision who will represent the Caucasian country in neighbouring Azerbaijan will be taken by a expert jury, consisting of musicians, producers and TV professionals of The Public Television and Radio Council of the Republic of Armenia."

http://www.eurovision.tv/page/news?id=45233&_t=internal_selection_for_armenia

I'm glad they're still in the contest, that means a lot I think
and also they have never sent a really really bad song according to me, and the music in the songs are awesome! <3

Was they close to not participate?

Yes because the EBU couldn't guarantee the Armenian delegate high security whilst in Azerbaijan, the countries are at war with each other.

Boom Boom was awful last year.

Ok, that's sad!
But I am glad that they participate yet and I hope they will not have any problems in Azerbaijan.

jantzen wrote:
Boom Boom was awful last year.

Yeah but the music were awesome

Svenskjäveln wrote:Ok, that's sad!
But I am glad that they participate yet and I hope they will not have any problems in Azerbaijan.

Same here

They have now decided to not be in eurovision, sad. :(

http://www.eurovision.tv/page/news?id=48413&_t=armenia_withdraws_from_eurovision_2012

weren't they expected to withdraw? I think they said it last year after ESC.

yeah this is not unexpected. Though this event shouldn't be about politics.

Akos Kirsch wrote:yeah this is not unexpected. Though this event shouldn't be about politics.

Exactly. It is sad that something like this can stop a country to participate.

That's awful! I didn't know that Armenia will not participate this year because of their war with Azerbaijan. It must have found a way to participate, I think. Anyway, I wish they participate next year.

But is they in war now 2012 too, I read it was in 1990?