{"id":9150,"date":"2016-05-11T15:51:03","date_gmt":"2016-05-11T13:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/?p=9150"},"modified":"2016-05-12T00:07:16","modified_gmt":"2016-05-11T22:07:16","slug":"iveta-mukuchyan-veroorzaakt-politieke-rel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/stockholm2016\/iveta-mukuchyan-veroorzaakt-politieke-rel\/","title":{"rendered":"Iveta Mukuchyan caused political riot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"color: #D49D6E; font-weight: bold;\" class=\"post-p-lead\">Unfortunately this article is not available in English and has been automatically translated. Please visit our <a href=\"http:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/\">homepage<\/a> for all English content or get an overview of all English articles <a href=\"http:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/english\">here<\/a>. You can also request a translation by sending us an <a href=\"mailto:info@songfestival.be\">email<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday evening the Armenian candidate Iveta Mukuchyan could not resist to the green room to wave the flag of Nagorno-Karabakh. That area has long been the cause of a turbulent relationship between Armenia and Azerbaijan and a lot of violence in the region itself. The EBU investigates.<\/p>\n<p>At the press conference after the show was the finalist asked why they had chosen just that flag, knowing that the conflict in the region very sensitive. &#8216; I just want peace in my country and <em>love waves<\/em> from my number also really spread around the world, &#8220;she said to the press. She laid her position a little clearer later from via facebook.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/IvetaMukuchyan\/posts\/1130322813694614?hc_location=ufi<\/p>\n<p>But an Azerbaijani journalist was the Tuesday evening clearly do not agree with Iveta and her message of peace and extracted heavy forward to the singer. &#8220;The area is an integral part of Azerbaijan and will never by someone as an independent State recognised. &#8216;\u00a0The Azerbaijani singer Samra answered him briefly and succinctly: &#8216; Eurovision is about music and about nothing else. &#8216;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Sanctions<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The incident is not only politically sensitive. Also at the EBU they are working on it.\u00a0Regional flags are normally <a href=\"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/ebu\/deze-vlaggen-zullen-we-niet-zien-op-het-songfestival\/\" target=\"_blank\">not permitted<\/a> in the Eurovision song contest and not at all when they serve to make a political statement.\u00a0Only last week, stepped the EBU <a href=\"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/ebu\/ebu-wijzigt-omstreden-vlaggenbeleid\/\" target=\"_blank\">of that line<\/a> after a lot of hoopla in the media.<\/p>\n<p>They allow an investigation into the incident and now sit together with representatives of Armenian broadcaster to than to a penalty. The decision is expected in June. &#8216; But we condemn the use of the flag of an area with so many political tensions in the green room during a live broadcast &#8216;, it sounds in their press release.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/EBU.HQ\/posts\/1045195205572896<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unfortunately this article is not available in English and has been automatically translated. 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