25 January in Baku will be a ceremony symbolic key song contest “Eurovision-2012″, drawing and presentation of the logo, the statement said the Working Group of the competition. Within the framework of the activities Dirk Èl′sbers, the Mayor of the city of Düsseldorf, which passed the Junior Eurovision Song Contest-2011 “, will hand over a symbolic key to the Mayor of the city of Baku song contest Gadžibale Abutalybovu. Thus Baku became officially a city, which will be a song contest “Eurovision-2012″.
To participate in the 57-m “Eurovision – 2012″, which will be held in Baku in may 2012, had 43. Among those who returned to competition last year, Italy, Hungary and Austria. Participation in “Eurovision-2012″ will and Montenegro, the last three years did not participate in this contest. Thus, the number of countries that will participate in “Eurovision-2012″, repeated records 2008 and 2011.
List of countries that will participate in “Eurovision-2012″: Austria, Azerbaijan, Albania, Armenia, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Hungary, United Kingdom, Georgia, Germany, Holland, Denmark, Greece, Ireland, Israel, Spain, Iceland, Italy, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Malta, Moldova, Norway, Portugal, Russia, Romania, San Marino, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey, Ukraine, Finland, France, Croatia, Montenegro, Sweden, Switzerland, Estonia. Luxembourg, Liechtenstein, the Principality of Monaco, San Marino and the Czech Republic had withdrawn from participation in “Eurovision”. Public distributor Poland TVP decided to participate in the television show in Europe.
According to the Chief producer of the Eurovision Song Contest-2012 ” Jan Ola Sanda, the Polish refusal from participation in the competition this year is that she is a master of European Championship 2012, football, and TVP, which is the organizer of the broadcast, busy schedule. He said he was pleased that in 2012 the year song contest again will be attended by more than 40 countries. “Representatives of the countries listed in May will gather in Baku in order to get closer to Azerbaijan and Azerbaijani people and take part in the great show in the world,” said Sand.
