The organizers of “Eurovision-2017” we hope that all participants will arrive in Kiev
GENEVA, March 17. /Offset. TASS Konstantin Gain/. The European broadcasting Union (EBU) expects that all participants of the contest “Eurovision-2017”, which will be held in Kiev, will be able to come to Ukraine.
So in the Geneva headquarters of the EBU commented, at the request of TASS, the situation around the participation in the contest the Russian singer Yulia Samoilova, which the security Service of Ukraine (SBU) may deny entry into the country.
The official representative of the EBU Dave Goodman on a question of the correspondent of TASS, will Russia be able to send the contest to another participant if Samoilova, the Ukrainian authorities will refuse entry into the country, avoided a direct answer, but spoke about the situation in General.
“The EBU fully understands and respects the laws of Ukraine and this issue should be decided by the authorities, with whom we have good dialogue since June, he said. We had previously received assurances from Ukrainian authorities that, in the spirit of this event, all who wish to attend the song contest “Eurovision” and who is not a threat, will be free to do it, and their safety will be guaranteed”.
“Thus, we expect that may be the solution to each delegation to come to Ukraine to participate,” concluded Goodman.
Previously, EBU announced that they have nothing against the participation Samoilova in the competition. At the same time, the head of the SBU Vasyl Hrytsak said today that “as of this moment, the decision of the entry ban the singer from Russia (Yulia Samoilova) is still pending”, and “to may have a lot of time.” According to him, “continues the test of the SBU about the possibility of a ban of entry to the singer to Ukraine due to illegal her visit to Crimea”, and he personally supports the ban.
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Who is Julia Samoylova and why she will go to Eurovision-2017На Eurovision song contest-2017 in Kiev, Russia will be represented by Yulia Samoilova. She will perform with the song “the Flame Is Burning” in English.
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