YEREVAN. - Armenian Public Television introduced reasons on rejecting participation in Eurovision-2012 song contest.

“Armenian Public Television has been participating in Eurovision since 2006 and introducing participant each year. We will continue cooperation with the European Broadcasting Union in general, and with Eurovision in particular, in future as well.

In the meantime, Armenia has to reject participation in the Eurovision-2012 song contest in Azerbaijan. Despite Azerbaijani authorities have promised security guarantees for all the participants, head of the state declared recently that Armenians all over the world are Azerbaijan’s enemy. Hence, there is no logic to introduce Armenia in a state, which approaches it as an enemy. This is a principle for us,” the statement reads.