In the aftermath of the US Capitol storming, German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas has called for a wide-reaching pro-democracy initiative to be spearheaded by Washington and its European allies.https://t.co/DBmaknQ2pW

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Maas did not provide details on the idea. However, he pointed President-elect Joe Biden's call to create a network of democratic nations.

He warned that "the belief in cohesion, in democracy as the most humane form of government, and in the persuasive power of science and reason" can only be preserved together. In order to achieve this, there were "no better, closer, more natural partners in the 21st century than America and Europe," Maas told dpa.