Vahram Atanesyan, a former member of the Nagorno-Karabakh Central Committee and publicist, wrote on his Facebook page:
"Ten-fifteen years ago, Ilham Aliyev imported several "London taxis" to Baku. No one thought of mocking or teasing Mamed; where is London? Now the Armenian media and social networks have focused on the Yerevan "sakura." They write that Armenian national-endemic tree species are "subject to genocide." Do you understand that in Yerevan, not the usual linden or poplar, but the Nairian Dalar poplar! and tomorrow our apricot tree will already bear "monkey food" fruit..."