This long-term commitment at the highest political level has not only realized a unique, collaborative approach to forest management and conservation, but has also created strong links to other regional and global processes sharing a mutual concern for the future of the world's forests.
Not least among the shared interests is a "mutual concern about the unilateralism" of current American policy, said Muhammad Noordin Sopiee, chairman of Malaysia's Institute of Strategic and International Studies.
In February, the address was officially changed to 668 on city records because of the "mutual concern" of the Reagans that the old number could be construed as a Biblical reference to Satan, according to Elaine Crispen, press secretary for Nancy Reagan.
Substantive cooperation with Iran in an area of mutual concern like counternarcotics could improve the atmospherics of United States-Iranian relations and also advance the dialogue on contentious issues of nuclearization, international terrorism and the future of Iraq that now keep the countries almost at swords' points.
"The start of the president's second term and the formation of a new Israeli government offer the opportunity to reaffirm the deep and enduring bonds between the United States and Israel," Jay Carney, the White House spokesman, said Tuesday, "and to discuss the way forward on a broad range of issues of mutual concern, including, of course, Iran and Syria".
The group was brought together for a discussion because of "mutual concern over Europe", BBC Newsnight has been told.
In practical terms, the TLD includes the bi-annual meetings of the European Parliament and the US Congress delegations and videoconferences, organised on specific topics of mutual concern, with a view to fostering an ongoing uninterrupted dialogue.
The scheduling of the trial date appeared to follow a pattern in which movements on matters of mutual concern to the United States and Iran shift in anticipation of talks concerning Iran's nuclear energy program, which Iran says is peaceful but which Western countries believe is a guise for the development of nuclear weapons.
The Dialogue, which gathered experts from many countries and with a wide range of backgrounds, aimed to build a strong network of people working on issues of mutual concern to Asia-Pacific countries and the United States.
At the project level, a key theme was the opportunity to address an important health issue (congenital hearing loss) of mutual concern for people in this region.
"I have discussed with many of you our mutual concern about the cyclical eroding of content quality to meet budgets manufactured in the corporate office," he wrote in a staff memo in February.
