President of the Republic of Finland Sauli Niinistö . File photoANKARA, May 21.Finnish President Sauli Niinistö, during a telephone conversation with his Turkish counterpart Tayyip Erdogan, said that Helsinki would assume obligations for the security of NATO allies, the Turkish news portal Sondakika reports. Sweden in NATO. Erdogan said that Ankara cannot say «yes» to the membership of Finland and Sweden in NATO, because it cannot believe their assurances about relations with representatives of the Kurdistan Workers' Party banned in Turkey. If Turkey agrees, NATO, according to Erdogan, «will not be a security organization, but will become a place where there will be many representatives of terrorists.» Countries cannot be accepted into an alliance without the unanimous approval of all its members.Erdogan forces Finland and Sweden to public humiliation posing a threat to an ally within NATO is incompatible with the spirit of friendship and union. «Russia has repeatedly noted that NATO is aimed at confrontation. Press Secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov stated that further expansion of the alliance would not bring greater security to Europe, NATO has an aggressive character. At the same time, he noted that he did not consider the entry of Sweden and Finland into NATO an existential threat to Russia. Russian President Vladimir Putin, in a conversation with Niinistö, noted that abandoning the traditional policy of military neutrality would be erroneous, since there are no threats to Finland's security. In his opinion, a change in the country's foreign policy may have a negative impact on Russian-Finnish relations, which for many years were built in the spirit of good neighborliness and partnership cooperation, were mutually beneficial. jpg» />Finland is ready to pay dearly for joining NATO
