Angelina Jolie Visits a Syrian refugee c in Lebanon

SAADNAYEL Lebanon March 15 (Reuters) - U.N. special envoyAngelina Jolie urged world powers on Tuesday to do more to endSyria's five-year war and help the millions who have fled theconflict as she visited refugees in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley.

The war has killed 250000 people displaced half of Syria'spopulation and created Europe's worst refugee crisis since WorldWar Two. Talks on a political solution are underway in Geneva

but hopes of progress are modest.

As a diplomatic solution eludes politicians simply copingwith the growing humanitarian crisis is not a viablealternative Jolie said.

"We cannot manage the world through aid relief in the placeof diplomacy and diplomatic solutions" she said at a muddy campin Saadnayel about 15 km (10 miles) from the Syrian border.

Refugees gathered around bracing against heavy rain and wind.

"We need governments around the world to show leadership: toanalyse the situation and understand exactly what their countrycan do how many refugees they can assist and how."

Highlighting the huge refugee influx into Syria's immediateneighbours which have been hosting millions of refugees shesaid the problem was not "confined to the situations of tens of

thousands of refugees in Europe".

Turkey Jordan and Lebanon host the vast majority of the 4.8million refugees created by the conflict. The one millionregistered refugees in Lebanon represent a quarter of the

country's population.

"The greatest pressure is still being felt in the MiddleEast and North Africa" Jolie said.

European Union leaders alarmed by an influx of 1 millionrefugees and migrants into the bloc of 500 million people havesketched an accord with Turkey that would grant Ankara more

money to keep the 2.7 million Syrian refugees on its territory.

The vast majority of Syrian refugees in Lebanon live inextreme poverty the United Nations says. Jolie special envoyfor UN refugee agency UNHCR said 80 percent were in debt after

any savings they brought from Syria had run out.

UNHCR says there are likely more than 60 million peopleforcibly displaced worldwide - one in every 122 people.

Syria's conflict has also created 2.4 million childrefugees killed many and led to the increasing recruitment ofchildren as fighters children's fund UNICEF said in a report tomark the five-year anniversary.

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Special Envoy Angelina Jolie reacts during a news conference during her visit to Syrian refugees in the Bekaa valley Lebanon March 15 2016. March 15 marks the 5th anniversary of peaceful protests against Assad leading to the devastating civil conflict in the country. REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir