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Jury from Azerbaijan gave highest point to Norway in Eurovision-2009 semifinal - PHOTOSESSION

Jury from Azerbaijan gave highest point to Norway in Eurovision-2009 semifinal - <font color=red> PHOTOSESSION</font>

19 May 2009 13:07 (UTC +04:00)

We are grateful to everybody for supporting us. Thanks to this we achieved success,â€ Aysel Teymurzadeh and Arash, who represented Azerbaijan in Eurovision-2009 song contest and ranked the third among 42 countries, told the press conference, APA reports. Aysel Teymurzadeh said Youth and Sport Minister Azad Rahimov came to their room in Moscow and expressed his gratitude for their performance.
â€œPresident Ilham Aliyev talked to us over the phone. The head of state congratulated us and wished success. Some said we would not win. Now they are ashamed of their words,â€ she said.

Teymurzadeh said Armeniaâ€™s representatives had wished success to us.
â€œBefore the semifinal Armenian representatives told us our song was very nice. They even wished success to us. I was shocked. So, our song and performance is nice indeed. 1 point given to Azerbaijan by Armenia in the final proves it. Our song was so lovely that Armenians could not help voting for us,â€ she said.

Azerbaijanâ€™s representatives underlined that the winner of Eurovision-2009 Alexander Rybak of Norway deserved the victory.
â€œAlexander deserved the first place and got this victory.

We said earlier that Alexander was our strongest rival. We were sure that we would be on top three. Our feelings didnâ€™t disappoint usâ€.

Spokeswoman for the Public Television and Radio Broadcasting Company and Eurovision 2009 commentator Leila Aliyeva noted that Azerbaijani jury of five gave 12 points to Norwegian singer Alexander Ribak. â€œVagif Gerayzadeh, Fakhriyya Khalafova, Mubariz Taghiyev, Tunzale Aghayeva, Manzar Nuraliyeva were in the Azerbaijani jury. They voted for the Norwegian singer in the semifinalâ€.

ITV public relations and monitoring department chief Tahir Mammadli expressed his opinion about the voting at the Eurovision 2009 Song Contest. He said there was objective voting and the results couldnâ€™t be changed. â€œThe votes were counted by the German company and were facsimiled to every country before the voting. Therefore there is no probability of the hiding of votes. It might be interrupted because of technical problems. There was no violation of votingâ€. Mammadov expressed opinion about the reports on peopleâ€™s artist Aygun Kazimovaâ€™s TV comments on Eurovision 2009. â€œAygun Kazimova was in Moscow during the contest. We thank her and other singers for their support. ITV didnâ€™t make official announcement about the Aygun Kazimovaâ€™s comments. There are some restrictions in this contest. It means there are some places they were restricted to enterâ€.
At the end of the press conference, Aysel Teymourzadeh and Arash performed â€œAlwaysâ€ for the journalists.