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    YOUTH NGO CALLS FOR ANNULLING JUNIOR EUROVISION RESULTS

    tert.am
    09.10.12

    An Armenian youth NGO has asked the Public Television to annul the
    results of the 2012 Junior Eurovision's national qualifier.

    At a news conference on Tuesday, the president of the Talented
    Generation NGO, Mikael Sargsyan, said they are calling for a new
    selection contest that would involve an open voting by the jury.

    It comes after Compass Band won the final round of the Junior
    Eurovision's qualifiers in Yerevan. Days later, it turned out that
    the winning participant, who is only nine, does not meet the age
    requirement. Under the Eurovision standards, young participants should
    be aged between 10 and 15.

    Gohar Gasparyan, who is in charge of Armenia's delegation to
    Eurovision, issued on Monday a statement, saying that each of the
    four members of the band is 13.

    "It is immoral to remove a child who is the groundwork of victory
    and the core of the band," she said.

    Sargsyan complained that Public Television had aired the contest 30
    minutes later than initially announced.

    "The people did not have a chance to watch about seven or eight
    children, who naturally lost votes," he said, urging for measures
    to pay back to the audience the sums which they spent in vain on the
    SMS voting.

    Sargsyan further said that the Public Television had violated standards
    during the previous years too.

    "We do not want to apply to European organizations as we are willing to
    solve the problem in Armenia. But if things go on this way, Armenia
    will move towards disqualification," he noted.

    Sargsyan added that they have sent a letter to the president, the
    speaker of the National Assembly and the Ministry of Culture to bring
    attention to the problem.

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