Georgia demands Israel to investigate the damaged Shota Rustaveli bas-relief in Jerusalem

The Georgian Parliament appealed to Knesset to speed up investigations of desecration of the monument to Shota Rustaveli (a Georgian poet of XII, author of “A Knight in the Panther’s Skin”) in Jerusalem. Committee on foreign relations at Georgia’s Parliament sent the letter on Tuesday, Georgia online reports.

A monument to Shota Rustaveli was built several years ago on the territory near the Monastery of the Cross in Jerusalem. Recently, unknow people damaged the bas-relief using a sharp object.

“It is a very negative fact, today we sent an official letter, with the parliament’s fixed position and we ask our colleagues to investigate this fact urgently,” – chairman of the committee Akakiy Minashvili declared.