Flag of Finland. File photoANKARA, May 22.Helsinki can give Ankara a guarantee that ties to the banned Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in Turkey will be more closely monitored, Finnish Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto said in an interview with Yle TV channel. Earlier, the Financial Times wrote that Turkey blocked the start of the membership application process Finland and 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.The Finnish Foreign Ministry assessed the timing of solving problems with Turkey on NATO membership «We can certainly give such guarantees (on relations with the PKK) to Turkey. Since the PKK is considered a terrorist organization in Europe, it is important to prevent terrorist activities in Finland as well. It is important that we made their contribution,» the Turkish newspaper Star quoted the head of the Foreign Ministry as saying. 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 could 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» />NATO has fallen into a trap that will seriously weaken the alliance, writes NI
