Begins the summit on Democracy, Beden: This is an urgent matter for everyone.

The president of the United States, Joe Biden, said democracy is facing “with sustainable and alarming challenges” worldwide.

He made these comments at the launch of the Summit for Democracy, a virtual summit, attended by the leaders of 110 states, including Kosovo.

According to Beden, democracy trends “are going in the wrong direction”, so he said that “ ““ocracy needs samples”. According to the American president, renewed democracy requires continuous “ ”.

“Democracy does not happen by accident. We have to renew it in every generation and according to me, this is an urgent matter for all of us”, Biden said.

President Biden said powerful authorities are trying to expand their influence worldwide.

With external pressure from autocrats, who want to expand their power, export and expand their influence worldwide and justify policies and practices, as the best way to address today's challenges. That's how they present this”, Biden said.

He said that in the domestic plan, the US has launched a series of initiatives to improve American lives, but also “we are doubling our support for democracies worldwide”, Biden said.

Kosovo President Vjosa Osmani is expected at this summit to present Kosovo's main pledges in the field of rule of law, international co-operation in combating authorities, empowering the role of women in society and establishing mechanisms to ensure implementation of commitments.

The summit on Democracy will be held over two days, through video connections, due to the coronary pandemic. This event has been described as demonstrating American leadership amid a existential war between democracies and autism or powerful dictatorships.

China and Russia -- two states that Biden views as the main authorities -- are not invited to participate in this summit, which they say has promoted ideological differences.

No state has the right to judge the wide and diverse political landscape of the world through a single measure of”, writes last month, Russia's Ambassador Anatoly Antonov and China's Qin Gang.

Enraged even more, the Biden administration has invited Taiwan's democratic-led island to this summit, but Beijing views as a Chinese province.

NATO heads of state such as Turkey and Hungary have not been invited, while leaders of Pakistan, the Philippines and Brazil have been invited to this summit.

Of the Western Balkan countries, besides Kosovo, Montenegro, Northern Macedonia and Serbia have been invited. Meanwhile, Bosnia and Herzegovina has not been invited.

Another problem is the January 6th attack on the U.S. Congress, at the time that Benden's victory over then US President Donald Trump, who still does not recognise the results of the 2020 presidential election, was certified.

Beden referred to this attack, in the context of democracy, in addressing Congress a few weeks later.

Could our democracy outdo the lies, anger, hatred and fear that are dividing us?

America's enemies the autocrats of the world are betting we can't afford to get out of”, he added.

Michael Abramowitz, president of Freedom House, said democracy in the US is flourishing, but in recent years it has been hurt.

“> for now, we are going through a phase in America where it is very difficult to do things and prove that democracy works”, he told the AP.

Freedom House's last annual report marked the 15th consecutive year of the world's collapse of democracy.

It is no secret that democracies worldwide are facing challenges from new threats. The states, in all regions of the world, are facing a scale of the collapse of democracy”, Uzra Zeya said. Undersecretary of Civil Security, Democracy and Human Rights.

One of the summit's topics will be the harmful effects of corruption.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that groups operating across the borders are “reforms” and often cooperate with government officials.

“We also know that organised crime, supported by corrupt actors, can destabilise rule of law, exacerbate trust in public institutions and weaken democrat governance”, Blinken said through a statement. / REL