Brussels - NATO is reaching out to young audiences in the West by posting three unconventional advertisement videos on the popular You Tube website, alliance officials said Monday.

The videos, which last about 45 seconds each, are designed to raise awareness about the trans-Atlantic alliance's role in the world by arguing that security should not be taken for granted, even in developed countries.

Brussels - The first thing visitors to the press centre at NATO's headquarters in Brussels usually see is a colossal mural stating that the alliance's "enduring purpose" is to guarantee its members' security.

The second is a rather smaller notice outside the cloakroom warning them that NATO cannot guarantee the security of their valuables.

Brussels - The European Union's foreign- ffairs commissioner is to visit China on Sunday ahead of a series of European and global summits, officials in Brussels said Friday.

Benita Ferrero-Waldner will visit Beijing to discuss "issues of common interest and concern," such as a forthcoming summit of the Group of 20 (G20) leading economies in London on Thursday and an EU-China summit planned for May, a statement from her office said.

Brussels  - All the members of Israel's future government should drop the hawkish rhetoric they used while in opposition, otherwise the entire Middle East peace process will suffer, Turkey's President Abdullah Gul warned on Friday.

"We expect to see a change from the rhetoric they used in opposition. If those statements were repeated and became government policy, I have to warn that things would take a turn for the worse and would make for more suffering," Gul told reporters in Brussels.

Brussels  - Turkey has nothing against Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Turkish President Abdullah Gul said Friday, three days after a top official warned that Ankara could block the Dane's appointment as NATO secretary general.

"We as Turkey don't have any attitude against the prime minister or anyone else. He is one of the most successful prime ministers in Europe," Gul told reporters in Brussels after meetings with European Union officials.

Brussels - European Union officials on Thursday were struggling to douse a diplomatic fire with the United States after the bloc's top political leader called US economic policy a "road to hell" just a week before a major meeting with the US president.