Kazakhstan debuts, and makes it 19 countries for JESC in Minsk!
The EBU has just announced that a record number of countries – 19, are going to be taking part in the 2018 Junior Eurovision Song Contest, which will take place in Minsk this November.
Three countries are making their come-back to the Junior Eurovision Song Contest this year – Azerbaijan, France, and Israel, while two countries are going to have their debut – Wales, and Kazakhstan! This will be the first ever participation of Kazakhstan in a Eurovision event.
The full list of participants is as follows:
- Albania
- Armenia
- Australia
- Azerbaijan
- Belarus
- France
- FYR Macedonia
- Georgia
- Ireland
- Israel
- Italy
- Kazakhstan
- Malta
- Poland
- Portugal
- Russia
- Serbia
- The Netherlands
- Wales
Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2018 will take place in Minsk, on the 25th of November.
Maybe Kazakhstan and Wales can submit bids to host Junior Eurovision 2020! 😀