Greece has no legal right to stop accepting asylum seeker applications, according to the United Nations’ refugee agency.

Greece clashed with 10,000 asylum seekers coming through Turkey over the weekend after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan opened its borders for migrants to get into the European Union. Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis responded by announcing that his country would not accept asylum applications for a month, but the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees said that’s a problem.

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