Image copyright EPA Slovenian Army units will help the police to deal with the influx of refugees to the Slovenian-Croatian border. This was announced on Saturday after an emergency meeting of the National Security Council, Prime Minister of Slovenia Miro Cerar.
According to him, the government decided to “connect the army to assist the police”.
From the early morning Saturday hundreds of migrants began arriving in Slovenia through Croatia, after Hungary previous evening closed its border with Croatia.
During one morning, about 600 people, located in the center for refugees on the border of Croatia and Serbia, were taken on buses to two border crossings with Slovenia.
According to the Agency for Refugees, all refugees are registered and delivered to the Austrian border.
“As long as everything goes very smoothly. In contrast, other countries, Slovenia has had time to prepare. It’s not perfect, of progress there, “- said the representative of the Agency Caroline von Beren in an interview with Agence France-Presse.
Hungary fenced off
On Saturday morning, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Hungary Peter Siyarto announced that Hungary temporarily introduce border controls on its border with Slovenia in order to prevent the penetration of thousands of refugees.
He also noted that the introduction of the Edge Control is provided by the Schengen Agreement, therefore, the authorities will not go beyond it.
Earlier, at midnight Saturday, Hungary closed its border with Croatia, trying to stop the flow of migrants heading to Germany and Austria.
In recent days, the territory of Hungary daily crossing from 5000 to 8000 migrants without going through registration.
In a statement, the Hungarian Government states that the new measures taken in order to “protect the citizens of Hungary and European countries.”
After losing the possibility to get from Croatia to Hungary, on Saturday, thousands of refugees have decided to reach Germany via Slovenia. Unlike Croatia, Slovenia, as well as Hungary, part of the Schengen area, so usually control at the Slovenian-Hungarian border is not.
Earlier, the head of the Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated that the participants of the Brussels summit of EU countries have refused to accept the proposal of Hungary on the creation of a pan-European border service, so that as a result of Budapest was forced to act unilaterally.
According to the authorities of Hungary, since the beginning of 2015 arrived in the country more than 383 million migrant workers.
“The Croatian plan”
According to the Minister of Internal Affairs of Croatia, Ranko Ostozhich, “Croatia is changing the route corridor in the direction of Slovenia”, but no official agreement on this between the two countries do not have.
“This is a Croatian plan” – said Ostozhich.
However, as correspondent Bi-bi-si in the Balkans Guy de Launay, this plan will work until Slovenia will allow refugees to enter its territory. If Slovenia decides to close the borders, the flow of refugees to Croatia, reaching 5,000 people per day, will be nowhere to redirect.
For some time before that Slovenia has stopped all rail links with Croatia to prevent the infiltration of refugees into the country by train.
The Minister of Internal Affairs Vesna Zhnidar said earlier that Slovenia will accept refugees as long as there will be an open border with Austria.
Over the past month, according to Reuters, Slovenia I missed about 3 thousand migrants.
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