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Angelina Jolie visits Baghdad

Oscar-winning actress Angelina Jolie brought visited Baghdad Thursday on a mission as a U.N. goodwill ambassador to highlight the plight of Iraqi refugees.

The actress stressed the importance of a more coherent plan for the more than 2 million displaced Iraqis who are beginning to trickle back to their homes after the recent calamity in violence that had threatened to initiate a civil war in the country.

"There's lots of goodwill and lots of discussion, but there seems to be just a lot of talk at the moment," Jolie said in excerpts of an interview aired recently.

"What happens in Iraq and how Iraq settles in the years to come is going to effect the entire Middle East," she added. "And a big part of what it's going to effect, how it settles, is how these people are returned and settled into their homes and their community and brought back together and whether they can live together and what their communities look like."

Jolie's itinerary included meetings with the top U.S. commander in Iraq Gen. David Petraeus, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and Iraqi migration officials during her visit, according to the American Embassy.

News footage also showed her mingling with American troops during lunch at a dining facility in the heavily guarded Green Zone, which houses the embassy and Iraqi government offices in central Baghdad.

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