Biden not willing to discuss Turkish objections to NATO with Erdogan

President Joe Biden at the US-ASEAN summit in Washington. File photoWASHINGTON, May 19.US President Joe Biden has no plans at this stage to engage with his Turkish counterpart, Tayyip Erdogan, in light of Ankara's concerns over NATO expansion, Jake Sullivan, the US leader's national security adviser, said Thursday. «There are no such plans at the moment,» he said. Sullivan during a briefing aboard the President of the United States, answering a related question.Biden asked the Senate for consent to approve the applications of Finland and Sweden Finland and Sweden on Wednesday handed over to NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg applications to join the alliance. Turkey, in turn, has previously stated that it cannot say «yes» to Sweden and Finland joining NATO because of their approaches to the Kurdish problem. 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 his Finnish counterpart Sauli 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. Biden said that NATO expansion does not threaten anyone