2010-03-18 13:27:38 -

ANTONIO BANDERAS is following in the footsteps of ANGELINA JOLIE by becom ing a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations (U.N).
The Evita star will join the U.N. Development Program's (UNDP) global f ight against poverty, and help the organisation raise

awareness of the Mi llennium Development Goals (MDGs), a set of targets aimed at halving worl d poverty by 2015.
The Spanish actor says in a statement, "Poverty robs us of our potentia l as a people, preventing us from being all that we can be. This is why i t is so important to mobilise all of our efforts to defeat it, especially if today we have the knowledge, the tools and the resources to do it." UNDP chief Helen Clark adds that Banderas' "proven commitment to the ca uses of the less fortunate makes him an ideal advocate for our work." (LR