"Two days before the August 31 deadline, the first section of the border closure has been completed," the ministry said in a statement carried by state news agency MTI.
The barrier consisting of three rolls of razor wire along the 175-kilometre frontier is however failing to prevent people getting across, AFP saw in a recent visit.
A four-metre-high (13-foot) fence is due to follow and is already being built by the Hungarian army which will "also provide a defence against illegal border-crossers," the defence ministry said.
Around 1,000 border police currently control the border, and 2,000 more are due to be in operation from September 1, the government says.
Hungary, a member of the European Union and of the visa-free Schengen zone, has this year intercepted more than 140,000 migrants entering from Serbia.
In the past week along, some 10,000 have crossed over as the surge reaches record levels.
The vast majority have trekked up through the western Balkans and want to travel onwards to western European countries like Germany and Sweden.
Prime Minister Viktor Orban's right-wing government has been criticised by Brussels for building the barrier, which it announced in June it would construct.
AFP
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Hongrie: le mur anti-migrants terminé ...
ReplyDeleteLa Hongrie a achevé la pose de la clôture de fils de fer barbelés destinée à empêcher l'entrée des milliers de migrants qui se pressent à sa frontière avec la Serbie.
Le premier ministre Victor Orban l'a présenté fièrement en déclarant qu'il s'agissait d'un rempart contre le flux de migrants qui tentent de gagner l'Europe occidentale.
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Cette clôture doublée de barbelés, longue de 175 kilomètres et haute de 4 mètres, doit contenir le flux de réfugiés de toutes origines qui choisissent de rentrer en Europe par la route des Balkans.
Cette route qui relie la Grèce à la Hongrie passe par la Macédoine et la Serbie. La Hongrie est la première étape dans l'espace Schengen pour ces réfugiés. La construction de ce mur de barbelés a débuté en juillet.
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30/8/15