Belarus has participated in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest in every edition since its inception in until . The Belarusian Television and Radio Company (BTRC), then a member organisation of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), has been responsible for the selection process of its participants since its debut. The country hosted the contest at the Minsk-Arena in and again in . The first representative to participate for the nation at the 2003 contest was Volha Satsiuk with the song "Tantsuy", which finished in fourth place out of sixteen participating entries, achieving a score of 103 points. Belarus was one of two countries to have never missed an edition of the contest, the other one being the , until the broadcaster was expelled from the EBU in 2021. It is also one of the two countries, along with , to have participated in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest before debuting in the adult one. The country hosted the contest at the Minsk-Arena in and again in . History Belarus was one of the sixteen countries to have made their debut at the inaugural Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2003, which took place on 15 November 2003 at the Forum in Copenhagen, Denmark. Belarusian Television and Radio Company (BTRC) hold a national final mechanism in order to select its representative for the contests. Child-singer Volha Satsiuk was the first participant to represent Belarus with the song "", which finished in fourth place out of sixteen participating entries, achieving a score of one hundred and three points. Belarus took part in every edition of the contest from 2003 to 2020, winning the contest twice: in with Ksenia Sitnik performing the song ""; and again in with Alexey Zhigalkovich performing the entry "". Viewing figures and interest for the Junior Eurovision in Belarus is very high; according to former EBU Executive Supervisor Svante Stockselius in 2010, Junior Eurovision was then considered "one of Belarus' most popular television shows". On 8 June 2009, the EBU confirmed that Belarus had won the rights to organise the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2010 over bids from Russia and Malta; after undergoing construction in 2009, the 15,000-spectator Minsk-Arena hosted the event. On 17 May 2016, Belarus confirmed that the country would be making its fourteenth Junior Eurovision appearance at the contest. The national selection show took place on 26 August 2016, in which ten acts competed in a live televised