Hollywood star Angelina Jolie has visited with displaced Colombians forced to seek refuge across the border in Ecuador, as a special envoy of high commissioner for refugees Antonio Guterres, the UNHCR announced on Sunday.
It was the first such working visit for the screen star since Guterres named her to the post this month. She has however been a UN goodwill ambassador since 2001, and as such made 40 visits around the world in the past decade. The new post will see the Oscar-winning actress perform a more diplomatic role. Ecuador is the Latin American nation which has the largest number of refugees, including some 56,000 from neighbouring Colombia.
Meanwhile, Jolie, whose recent directorial debut put a spotlight on the 1992-95 war in Bosnia, was named an honorary citizen of Sarajevo on Monday.