" He said the "technical barrier" will be used to direct the refugee flow, not to close the 670-kilometer (400-mile) border as was the case in Hungary.The meeting is taking place in the capital, Valletta, not far from the area in the Mediterranean where thousands of people have been rescued and many have drowned at sea this year.Interior Minister Vesna Gyorkos Znidar said these measures "are not popular, but they are necessary.Prime Minister Miro Cerar said a day earlier that his country expects about 30,000 new migrants to reach Slovenia's borders.

A convoy of army trucks carrying the fence and bulldozers arrived in Veliki Obrez Wednesday morning, and soldiers began unwinding the spirals of wire and stretching them along the Slovenian side of the river Sutla that divides the two countries. His government fears that if neighboring Austria restricts their entry, the number of people that would be stranded in Slovenia would be too much for the tiny Alpine state to handle."If we don't act on time," Cerar said, "this could cause a humanitarian catastrophe on the territory of Slovenia. Other units were later seen further southwest, near the town of Gibina, also stretching the spirals of wire and stacking them on top of each other."

Meanwhile, European and African leaders converged on Malta for talks aimed at speeding the return of migrants who do not qualify for asylum and to address longer-term issues like poverty, climate change and conflict, which are forcing people to leave.Nearly 170,000 migrants have crossed Slovenia since mid-October when Hungary closed its border with Croatia with a razor-wire fence and the flow was redirected to Slovenia.More than 170,000 migrants passes through Slovenia since mid-October Gibina: Slovenia on Wednesday began erecting a razor-wire fence along its border with Croatia to control the influx of migrants, as European and African leaders gathered in Malta to seek  China Wire And Cables Manufacturers  long-term solutions to the flow of people making their way across Europe

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