View of Ankara. File photoANKARA, May 22. The process for the visit of the delegations of Sweden and Finland to Turkey is stalled, the countries are waiting for a response from Ankara, the Milliyet newspaper writes on Sunday. Earlier, the Financial Times wrote that Turkey blocked the start of the application review process about the accession of Finland and Sweden to 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.Media: NATO expansion will not make the world safer» Delegations from Finland and Sweden were supposed to arrive for negotiations with NATO. Sweden even announced that the foreign ministers of both countries would visit Ankara. However, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said: «Let them not get tired!». «After his statement, the brakes were put on. The two countries offered to send a delegation at the level of deputy ministers. After President Erdogan's talks with Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson and Finnish President Sauli Niinistö, it was announced on Saturday that Turkey's response to the proposal could be on the agenda.» , — writes the edition. In Russia, it has been 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» />The United States recognized the entry of Finland and Sweden into NATO as dangerous for Europe
