‘Democracy Summit’ showed split between democracies – Reuters

The summit, attended by 121 countries, lasted three days, from March 28 to 30. It was the second such event created by US President Joe Biden. One of the key events at the summit was the speech by the US leader. Biden said democracy is “hard work” that must be constantly defended and protected. To achieve this goal, the White House has announced its intention to allocate at least $690 million. This amount will be used to protect democracy, free elections and the media.At the same time, even such an impressive number of speeches on the importance of protecting democracy did not lead to unity among the countries participating in the summit. The final declaration was only supported by 73 countries. At the same time, it should be noted that 13 of them signed the document with certain reservations and disagreeing on some points. Among them were Armenia, India, Israel, Mexico and others. In particular, Yerevan expressed dissatisfaction that the final statement focuses on the Russian special operation and does not mention the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict.The results and composition of the summit raised questions even among Western journalists. In particular, representatives of the Financial Times questioned the legality of the participation in the event of representatives from India, Israel and Mexico. Journalists recalled that there are currently many protests against judicial reform in Israel.