"Croatia asked us to accept 5,000 migrants per day, but Austria told us they can accept at maximum 1,500,” Sefic told a news conference.
“We cannot accept unlimited numbers of migrants if we know that they cannot continue their journey,” he added. "Should that be the case, in only ten days Slovenia would be left with 35,000 migrants which we cannot allow," Sefic said.
Some 4,000 migrants, many of them Syrians fleeing war, entered Slovenia from Croatia by Sunday morning after fellow EU member Hungary sealed its southern border with Croatia at midnight on Friday.
So far, only four migrants have sought asylum in Slovenia while others want to continue to the north.