Our main priority right now is to work with the local authorities in Wajid to secure the unconditional release of the staff,".

VOA: standard.2009.03.16

To underscore the priority the administration puts on the issue, Clinton made the release of the report a major event that included bipartisan Congressional leaders and activists from Albania and Costa Rica who were among nine people from around the world saluted in the report as anti-trafficking heroes.

VOA: standard.2009.06.16

Nicolas Sarkozy, France's president, had made her release a personal priority, and pressed Mr Uribe to negotiate with the guerrillas.

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Nicolas Sarkozy, the French president, who has made the release of Mrs Betancourt a priority, certainly feels it best to continue to curry favour with both men.

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Israeli officials say their first priority now is securing the release of the captured soldier, either by mediation or by an Israeli military operation.

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