Discord.js Bot mentioning Voice Channels - node.js

I have a specific event (voiceStateUpdate) that has to mention sometimes a Voice Channel:
channel.send(`The Channel is:`+"``"+`<#${newMember.channelID}>`+"``");
As one can see, I want that the channel is being mentioned with those `` around them, so the channel in Discord is in this black box. But my actual output looks like this:
The Channel is: <#1234134234134>
So in Discord this Black Box works, but the Channel is displayed not with its name, but with the ID

To get the right result, you simply imitate Discord's conversion of the format <#CHANNELID>.
channel.send(`The Channel is:`+"`"+`${newMember.channel.name}`+"`");
This will get the exact same result, as if one would post as a user the message with Discord's conversion form

Try it this way:
channel.send('`' + `The Channel is: <#${newMember.channelId}>` + '`');
For a single line code block you only need to wrap it in grave accents once.
Edit:
grafpatron's answer is the correct one

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Your code doesn't work, because you want to get an interaction, not a message.
Unfortunately, there is no way to get the interaction of another client. At most you can have a MessageInteraction, which gives you the name of the command used.
But in your case you can make it work since MEE6 still accepts the old command format. If you use the prefix of MEE6 instead of the / command, your code should work (with a bit of reworking: you would need to look at the message right before MEE6's response, or look if a message starts with the MEE6's prefix)

How to use GetRepliesRequest call in Telethon

There is api method messages.getReplies in Telegram API and the equivalent of the same is
functions.messages.GetRepliesRequest in the Telethon.
But this method is not returning the expected replies/comments to the post. Instead, it returns multiple messages including the replies to the requested message_id and other messages also which are not even the replies to the requested message_id.
for conv in client.iter_messages(channel.id):
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(I checked the response from of the method call(inner for loop) and their reply_to_msg_id differs from what i requested to get the result).
I could not understand the behaviour of these replies getting in the result.
Also Telegram API docs are not good in shape with example and explantion.
What and how messages are considered as reply to the message in the telegram?
How telegram decides upon the messages whether it is a reply or a normal message?
if a message is reply, then to which message this is a reply?
Given a broadcast channel with comments enabled (let's say the channel's username is username), and a post with a discussion started (comments) for the channel post with message ID 1001, the following code will print all comments for post 1001 in channel username:
async for m in client.iter_messages('username', reply_to=1001):
print(m.text)
This is equivalent to clicking on the "# comment(s)" button in Telegram Desktop. Unfortunately I was not able to reproduce what you mention here:
But this method is not returning the expected replies/comments to the post. Instead, it returns multiple messages including the replies to the requested message_id and other messages also which are not even the replies to the requested message_id.
Now, for the other questions:
What and how messages are considered as reply to the message in the telegram?
Let's look at the problem from a different angle: send_message with comment_to.
First, messages.getDiscussionMessage must be used on the source broadcast channel with the source message ID. This will return the corresponding "discussion message" in the linked "discussion megagroup channel".
Now, messages.sendMessage can be used to send a message in the linked discussion megagroup channel to reply to the corresponding discussion message.
As you can see, "comments" are simply "replies to" the corresponding message of the discussion group. Hence the name, reply_to, during iter_messages.
How telegram decides upon the messages whether it is a reply or a normal message?
In a given chat, messages can reply to other previous messages in the same chat (in Telethon, message.reply_to). However, for channel comments, they're also replies in a way (just in a different chat), hence the parameter name. I tried to stick with Telegram's naming convention and solve the confusion by documenting the parameter but that might've been the wrong choice.
if a message is reply, then to which message this is a reply?
This can be found through message.reply_to.

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the only thing i want to change is this should be displayed in the general channel (its printing it in the terminal now) and that instead of only displaying the person's name i want it to mention them.
Thank you for your help!
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