SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina — A top official in Bosnia says Angelina Jolie is interested in supporting education and other projects to help young Bosnians and people who return to homes they left during the war.
Haris Silajdzic, chairman of Bosnia’s three-member Presidency, said after meeting the actress Sunday that she asked about ideas for projects she could support and they both concluded that “the absolute priority is education”.
The aim would be turn Sarajevo into a regional center of education, he said.
As UNHCR ambassador, Jolie visited Bosnia in April and drew attention to the plight of 117,000 people who haven’t able to return to their homes even though the Bosnia war ended 15 years ago.
Jolie was also inspecting filming locations as she plans to shoot a movie in Bosnia.
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt at dinner together with Bosnian Family at a hotel-restaurant in a Gorazde city in eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina on the Drina river.
SARAJEVO (AFP) – Film stars Angelina Jolie and her husband Brad Pitt flew into Bosnia on a surprise visit to meet refugees still suffering from the Balkan country’s brutal 1992-1995 civil war, an official said on Monday.
“They are in Bosnia to visit the sites run by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR),” local UNHCR spokeswoman Aida Prljaca told AFP.
Jolie and Pitt have not been seen in public since Bosnian border police announced that a famous Hollywood couple had arrived late Sunday.
Prljaca said the couple’s visit to Bosnia would be discreet, without any contact with media, and that the UNHCR would likely issue a statement later in the day.
Dozens of photographers staked out the luxury Hotel Europe in the centre of the Bosnian capital overnight Sunday, said an AFP photographer.
The couple flew into Sarajevo from Venice, where Jolie is working alongside Johnny Depp on the film “The Tourist”, which is loosely based on the French mystery “Anthony Zimmer”.
Its director is Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, who was behind the critically acclaimed 2007 German film “The Lives of Others”.
