(VOVworld) - The Czech government has proposed that three central European states send troops and police to help protect Hungary's borders against a migrant influx into Europe's Schengen passport-free travel zone, officials said on Monday.

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Czech Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka said on his Twitter page that his government is prepared to help Hungary with protection of the Schengen border, referring to the Visegrad 4 group that compromises his country, Slovakia, Poland, and Hungary.

Sobotka said their interior ministers will meet on Thursday to discuss the idea.