Angelina meets with BIH officials

Angelina Jolie wants to promote BiH as a center of education

The building of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina is today a center of media interest because it is known Hollywood actress and Goodwill Ambassador of UNHCR and Angelina Jolie that held separate meetings with the Chairman Haris Silajdzic and Presidency member Zeljko Komsic.

Jolie has shown special interest in the promotion of sustainable return to our country, and with Silajdzic spoke about the acquisition of dryers, refrigerators, cultivators, greenhouses and other equipment returnee families.

They agreed that education is a priority for the future of new generations of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Silajdzic expressed the idea that Sarajevo and Bosnia and Herzegovina to become educational center that will attract thousands of students from around the world. Jolie has expressed willingness to join in promoting this idea and through mutual friends working on the implementation of the project.

In the end, Silajdzic called on the actress in October this year, attended an international conference on improving the dialogue between cultures, to be held in Sarajevo, organized by the Kuwaiti Al Babtain Foundation, under the auspices of Silajdzic.

In an interview with a member of the Presidency Komsic Ambassador Jolie spoke about the activities that it intends to implement in Bosnia and also to help displaced and strengthen unity and education.

Komsic said he believes that through its activities to come to the realization of concrete projects. Finally, in a very pleasant atmosphere, talked about future projects by American actress - movie that will be partially realized in our country, communicated from the press-service of the BiH Presidency.

Sarajevo, August 21 (AP) - A surprise visit to Sarajevo, Bosnia, U.S. friction Angelina Jolie in the role of goodwill ambassador of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.

The Hollywood star met with representatives of Muslim and Croat Bosnian collegial presidency, Haris Silajdzic (President) and Zeljko Komsic and was made aware of the process for the return of war refugees within the Community (1992-1995).

"The ambassador was particularly interested in the return" of refugees and deported, sources said the cabinet Silajdzic in a statement.

Almost 15 years after the war in Bosnia, which caused about 100 thousand deaths and 2.2 million displaced and refugees - ie half the population before the war - there are still 113,000 refugees in the country, according to UNHCR figures.

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SARAJEVO — Hollywood star Angelina Jolie called on Bosnian leaders to speed up the return of thousands of refugees from the brutal 1990s civil war as she made a surprise visit to Sarajevo on Saturday.
"I hope that there'll soon be practical steps to improve these people's lives," Jolie was quoted as saying in a statement released by the UNHCR, the United Nations refugee agency.
Jolie -- whose visit coincides with the release in Europe of her new spy thriller "Salt" -- is a UNHCR goodwill ambassador and last visited Bosnia Hercegovina in April with her husband, movie heartthrob Brad Pitt.
She hailed the adoption by the Bosnian parliament in June of a new strategy for returning all internally displaced people in the country by 2014, the UNHCR said.
"The political leaders have shown a spirit of compromise in getting this far. Now it needs a little more urgency," added Jolie.
Jolie also met the Muslim and Croat representatives of Bosnia's tripartite presidency, Haris Silajdzic and Zeljko Komsic, to discuss the refugee issue, Silajdzic's cabinet said in a statement.
The 1992-1995 war left 100,000 people dead and 2.2 million refugees and displaced persons in Bosnia. Some 113,000 people are still displaced or unable to return to their homes, according to the UNHCR.
Jolie, who arrived in Sarajevo on a private jet from Budapest on Friday, was later due to meet Bosnian film producers about a possible film on the Bosnian war which she would direct and star in, national radio said.

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