Hungary removes partial razor fence from Slovenian border

Hungarian authorities removed several hundred metres of razor wire fence from the Slovenian border on Friday afternoon after its official expression that "not planning to build a fence on the Slovenian border".

Murska Sobota police from the Slovenian border region with Hungary confirmed that all razor wire, laid out in two stretches of border near the border crossing of Pince starting on Thursday, had been removed by late Friday afternoon.

It is as yet unclear why exactly Hungary decided to put up razor wire in the first place and there was some confusion Friday as the wire was being removed from some sections and installed at others at the same time, according to Slovenian Press Agency (STA).

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban told the press in the Austrian capital of Vienna on Friday that his government was not planning to build a fence on the Slovenian border.

He said that field work was under way on the border to "clean up" a strip of land and make it suitable for deploying mobile equipment, Hungarian press agency MTI reported.

Slovenian Foreign Minister Karl Erjavec called up his Hungarian counterpart Peter Szijjarto on Thursday to express Slovenia's displeasure, which made dramatic changes by Hungarian authorities, according to the STA report. Endit