main issues

[Klpno]

Hello, everyone.
I'd like to ask a question about the meaning of 'issues' in the following passage. Does it mean problems or sources of income?

The first area to secede was the relatively prosperous republic of Slovenia in 1991 - despite some skirmishes there was no real fighting. In the end Slovenia could be allowed to leave because it was ethnically homogeneous, not central to the main issues in the country and had always been closer to Austria than the rest of Yugoslavia.

[Alan]

Hi,

'Issues' invariably means 'matters of concern' or 'matters of interest'.

Alan
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[Klpno]

Thank you very much, Alan.