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India has been gracious: Jolie

``Action of providing shelter to refugees from various countries commendable''

IMPRESSIVE INDIA: UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador and Hollywood actor Angelina Jolie with Minister of State for External Affairs Anand Sharma in New Delhi on Sunday. — Photo: V.V. Krishnan

NEW DELHI : Goodwill Ambassador of the U.N. High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) and Hollywood actor Angelina Jolie on Sunday hailed India for giving shelter to displaced people from a number of countries.

Ms. Jolie, who is in India since last month for a film shooting, met Minister of State for External Affairs Anand Sharma and discussed issues relating to refugees in India for about an hour.

After the meeting, she told reporters that India's action of providing shelter to refugees from various countries, though it had needy people of its own, was commendable.

"The wonderful thing that I have learned since I have been in India is there are many needs for your own people and yet you have all been so gracious and been so open to many many refugees over the years," she said.

"India should be commended for all that is done and I am grateful to the Indian people... We have agreed to work together,'' Ms. Jolie said in the presence of Mr. Sharma.

Maintain identity

She particularly appreciated the fact that refugees from different religions and cultures were being encouraged to come to India and maintain their identity. — PTI

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