That's a matter of prime importance.

The first priority, after all, was to stabilize a highly dangerous situation.

Of course, resolving the political crises and conflicts remains the top priority.

For both men, the goal of clinging to power was a top priority.

The first priority of the new president will be the economy and the financial crisis. Since the crisis hit, Obama has been calm and, indeed, presidential.

The most immediate challenge is to safeguard the financial system s stability against external shocks.

The first priority of the new president will be the economy and the financial crisis.

Terror will now vault to the top of the long list of pressing issues that will be discussed.

Ensuring that outcome will be the number one job for a newly re elected President Cristina Kirchner.

China is especially keen on combating drug trafficking, as Badakhshan, the Afghan province bordering on Xinjiang, has become the main transit route for Afghan opium. But preventing the spillover into Xinjiang of Taliban inspired religious extremism remains a high priority as well.

But preventing the spillover into Xinjiang of Taliban inspired religious extremism remains a high priority as well.

The primary purpose of Russia s foreign policy seems to be to tap Russia s state companies for the benefit of Kremlin officials.

In the absence of some military force to protect them (in itself a mixed blessing, as interventions from Somalia to Bosnia demonstrated), these humanitarian groups must negotiate access with criminal warlords, oppressive governments, and war criminals.

Their first job is to get the desperately needed aid that often they alone can deliver to populations in need and in danger.

When the election results are declared next year, no one doubts that the first challenge will be to cobble together another coalition.

Indeed, law and order must be the top priority of the unity government, owing to the need to restore the Palestinian public s faith in Palestinian leaders from all factions.

Whereas French intentions to reform the international monetary system had initially been received skeptically, suddenly reform looks like the right priority at the right time.

Protecting North America and securing its borders has become a major priority in the fight against international terrorism and there must be a common response.

The coach himself stated that he considers creating a competitive environment on the team as a matter of priority and is going to give the football players an opportunity to prove themselves.

After the War, it was a prime EU objective to moderate nationalism and promote regionalism in Germany, a feat that was accomplished to the benefit of all Europeans.

The main order of business of the G 20, which will meet at the level of finance ministers in Berlin in December, should be the fundamental repair of international institutions.

Strengthening and tightening United Nations Security Council Resolution 1718, crafted in the wake of North Korea s first nuclear test in October 2006, should be the immediate task.

The ECB s hawks, understanding the dangers of abnormally low interest rates for a central bank whose primary objective is price stability, had been eager to start raising rates earlier.

We must also strengthen food safety from production to consumption, including improvements in our understanding of the interaction between the food system and human health, particularly zoonotic diseases and the effects of pesticides. Research to identify alternative energy sources to stop the conversion of maize, soybeans, oil palm, and other foods to bio fuel should become another high priority.

Research to identify alternative energy sources to stop the conversion of maize, soybeans, oil palm, and other foods to bio fuel should become another high priority.

Unfortunately, faced with the growing risks to the dollar s status, American policymakers, rather than nursing the country s premier export, seem to be more interested in milking it.

Emphasizing that the existence of widespread extreme poverty inhibits the full and effective enjoyment of human rights, and that its immediate alleviation and eventual elimination must remain a high priority for the international community,

Inequality can be accepted, but not if it is the fruit of corruption, and this remains China's foremost social problem, which the Party has been unable to eradicate, despite Caijng 's exposés and the death penalty.

Recent events in Georgia remind us that resolving the region's frozen conflicts i.e., those in the breakaway regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, of Transdneistria in Moldova, and Nagorno Karabakh in Azerbaijan must be a priority.

Strengthening and tightening United Nations Security Council Resolution 1718, crafted in the wake of North Korea s first nuclear test in October 2006, should be the immediate task. The Security Council is already at work drafting a new resolution.