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No refugee masses at Brenner says

Vienna cannot close border

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(ANSAmed) - Rome, April 29 - There are no masses of refugees pushing at the Italian-Austrian border at the Brenner Pass, Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni said Friday, a day after Italy averted the closure of the pass and the erection of a fence, for now.
    "It's not that there are masses of refugees in Alto Adige pushing on the Brenner frontier," he said on RAI radio.
    "Therefore the message that we have been sending Austria for days is that they cannot take a decision like this, especially on a border so charged with history, with symbols".
    On Thursday Austrian Interior Minister Wolfgang Sobotka said after Rome talks with Interior Minister Angelino Alfano that for now there will be no fence at the Brenner Pass, only more controls, if necessary, in the event of a large influx of migrants and refugees.
   

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