spoke passionately about the plight of refugees in syria and sharply criticized the un security council for being paralyzed by its division over syria 's four-year conflict .
jolie briefed the council as special envoy for the u.n. on refugee issues .
when asked about jolie 's planned briefing , syria 's u.n. ambassador bashar ja'afari responded : ` she is beautiful that ' nearly four million syrians have fled the conflict into neighboring countries .