Shalva Papuashvili: King Erekle paid one large, continuous, sixty -year war for Georgia's survival and unification. War with sword, war with labor, war wisdom

Today we are being monumented by our king, who, after his native Telavi, waited for exactly half a century, ”said Shalva Papuashvili, Speaker of the Parliament of Georgia in his speech at the opening ceremony of Erekle II's monument.