"Keeping everybody up to speed with what we were doing, what we were learning, what the key issues were.

VOA: standard.2010.04.29

The leaders are expected to discuss a number of key issues, including European commitments on fighting climate change, ahead of a December climate change summit in Copenhagen.

VOA: standard.2009.10.27

North Korea, the political situation in Burma, and Friday's suicide bomb attacks on two hotels in Jakarta are expected to be key issues at the ASEAN meetings.

VOA: standard.2009.07.17

On the subject of North Korea, ElBaradei said there are two key issues: "One is its obsession with security and the possibility of regime change by the U.S.

VOA: standard.2009.11.04

In a speech at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington on Monday, Mr.Fillon listed four key issues that France wants to top the agenda at the economic summit.

VOA: standard.2009.03.24

As we go forward, as Japan goes forward with forming a new government, one of the key issues that we look forward to working with them on is the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula."

VOA: standard.2009.08.31

Clinton said the two countries, which had frosty relations during the Cold War era and beyond, still differ on some key issues but that their new partnership has the potential to be a "signature accomplishment" of the two governments.

VOA: standard.2009.07.20

On other key issues, European nations such as Britain, France and Germany failed to win G20 agreement for new taxes on banks as part of efforts to discourage excessive risk-taking that could lead to another financial crisis.

VOA: standard.2010.06.27

"Our alliance with Japan is key to a number of important regional and even global issues,"

VOA: standard.2009.08.31

"It depends on what the Egyptians will do out of it and how they focus the investment foreign policy-wise in key spaces which are relevant to national security issues where Egypt has a greater chance of success."

VOA: standard.2009.11.03