A goodwill ambassador for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, Angelina Jolie is in Iraq trying to jumpstart rescue efforts for over 2 million people displaced in the wartorn country of Iraq. It seems there are not any definitive plans in place to assist people in this situaiton. 58 percent of this some 2 million people are UNDER 12 years of age.
"There doesn't seem to be a real coherent plan to help them," said
Jolie, speaking in an exclusive interview with CNN's Arwa Damon
Thursday.
"There's lots of goodwill. Lots of discussion, but
there seems to be a lot of talk at the moment, and a lot of pieces that
need to be put together. I'm trying to figure out what they are."
"How Iraq settles in the years to come is going to affect the entire
Middle East," said Jolie. "It's in our best interest to address a
humanitarian crisis on this scale because displacement can lead to a
lot of instability and aggression."
The full transcript of CNN's exclusive interview with Jolie is here (video also).
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