Angelina Jolie's looks get an awkward mention at UN.

You would think that when one Hollywood’s leading ladies addresses the UN Security council, pleading for world leaders to help displaced Syrian refugees – that her words would receive more attention than her looks.

“The problem is not the lack of information… the problem is lack of political will,” Jolie told the council, which has been accused repeatedly of failing to act decisively on the 4-year conflict.

“We cannot look at Syria, and the evil that has arisen from the ashes of indecision, and think this is not the lowest point in the world’s inability to protect and defend the innocent,” Jolie told the council.

But her words failed to cut through and instead attracted this response from Syria’s U.N Ambassador Bashar Ja’afari:

“She is beautiful.”

Beautiful? Beautiful? When there are nearly 4 million Syrians displaced?

His words at once utterly failed to address the concerns raised by Jolie, who is Special Envoy to High Commissioner on refugees and also undermined her position and decades of experience.

Jolie is not just a Hollywood star playing the role of diplomat.

She is not just a pretty face.

 More on this: “The situation in Syria is now the worst humanitarian crisis since WWII.“

Since the crisis began in 2011, Jolie has visited the region 11 times. She has seen the devastation first hand and was calling on council members to do the same.

Her words are important and the world should be listening to them, our own government included.

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In her speech, Jolie also addressed the issue of refugee deaths at sea, specifically, more than 1,300 people fleeing Syria and other countries who have drowned in the past three weeks while vying for safety across the Mediterranean.

“It is sickening to see thousands of refugees drowning on the doorstep of the world’s wealthiest continent. No one risks the lives of their children in this what except out of utter desperation. If we can not end the conflict we have an inescapable responsibility to help refugees and provide legal avenues to safety.”

Watch some of the key moments of the speech here.