United States Vice President Kamala Harris brought up the January 6 storming of the Capitol complex in her closing remarks at the virtually held democracy summit on Thursday. She said, “Here in the United States, we know that our democracy is not immune from threats.”

While delivering a blow to the ongoing tussle between the Republican and Democratic parties on voting rights law, Harris said, “January 6 looms large in our collective conscience, and the anti-voter laws that many states have passed are part of an intentional effort to exclude Americans from participating in our democracy.”

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After the Vice President’s closing remarks concluded, she tweeted a follow-up to her message. She wrote, “I believe that democracy is our world’s best hope—not because it is perfect, but because of its principles. Because it delivers for the people.”

The diplomatic video gathering — which has over 100 attendees– comes as United States President Joe Biden has repeatedly made a case that America and like-minded allies need to show the world that democracies are a far better vehicle for societies than autocracies.

“This is an urgent matter,” Biden said in remarks to open the two-day virtual summit. “The data we’re seeing is largely pointing in the wrong direction”, according to reports from Associated Press.

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Multiple world leaders spoke one after another in the hours-long summit on Thursday. These include Denmark Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen and Poland’s Andrzej Duda. On the other hand, Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan declined to attend the conference.

In a statement issued ahead of the meeting, the foreign ministry said, “We value our partnership with the US which we wish to expand both bilaterally as well as in terms of regional and international cooperation”, according to reports from the Associated Press.