Spanish TV interested in Laura Hayrapteyan's song BarcelonaDecember 5, 2009 - 16:59 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Voting in Eurovision Junior was absolutely objective, according to Diana Mnatsakanyan, Advisor to Public Television's Executive Director on Special Projects. "The 5 points received from Macedonia was a great achievement for us. But let us refrain from judging winners," she told today a news conference devoted to Laura Hayrapetyan's performance Eurovision Junior 2009 song contest. At that, she noted that Spanish TV was interested in Armenian representative's song Barcelona. However, Mnatsakanyan refrained from making comments on Hayrapetyan's possible participation in Eurovision 2010 adult contest. It is untimely to speak about Armenia's further participation unless there is satisfactory response with regard to Azerbaijan's illegal actions during Eurovision 2009, she said. In Eurovision Junior 2009 contest held on November 21 in Kiev (Ukraine), Armenian representative Laura Hayrapetyan became a silver prize winner, receiving 116 points. Top stories The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. The festival made the news public on March 19, saying that “several options are considered in order to preserve its running” Partner news | Kazakhstan welcomes Yerevan, Baku’s agreement to meet in Almaty Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has welcomed the agreement of Baku and Yerevan to hold negotiations in Almaty. Armenia offers to temporarily host, preserve Gaza manuscripts The Armenian Foreign Minister has said Yerevan is ready to help preserve manuscripts from the conflict zone in Gaza. Aliyev says no need for mediators in Armenia-Azerbaijan process Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev believes that Baku and Yerevan do not mediators in the process of normalizing relations. Aram I supports Karekin II’s “patriotic position” Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia Aram I has expressed support for the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin. |