'No more refugees welcome': Slovenian minister says EU must seal borders


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  • Thursday, 18 Nov 2021

FILE PHOTO: Migrants walk outside the Kokkinotrimithia refugee camp on the outskirts of Nicosia, Cyprus November 9, 2021. REUTERS/Yiannis Kourtoglou/File Photo

SARAJEVO (Reuters) - The European Union must seal its external borders to deter migrants who are no longer welcome in the wealthy 27-member bloc, Interior Minister Ales Hojs of Slovenia, which currently presides over the EU, said on Thursday.

Speaking at an international conference on migration in Sarajevo, Hojs said European interior ministers had been preoccupied with the coronavirus pandemic, a migrant crisis which he said was hybrid war waged by Belarus against the EU's eastern borders, and the fall of the government in Afghanistan.

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