On Wednesday evening, the Justice Department issued a statement confirming the exchange of letters "regarding an issue of mutual concern".
When a parent relates to a child, or a self-confident and well-adjusted adolescent to a depressed and distraught friend, for example, they do not relate as two business persons do during a contract negotiation, but as two, differentially empowered people, trying to resolve an issue of mutual concern.
That alone would be a huge step.Everyday issues of mutual concern would come first transport links, energy, the validity of Kosovars'UN-issued documents and number-plates in Serbia, and the return of the 230,000-odd Serb and other refugees from Kosovo now in Serbia and Montenegro.
Iran is more likely to develop relations with Europe on issues of mutual concern.
But Mr. Clinton reversed himself in 1994, saying that the United States and China would move forward faster on issues of mutual concern if Beijing was not isolated.
The Embassy initiated these events, as we have in the past, in order to emphasize to our Russian counterparts the value of cooperation on issues of mutual concern.
The official Qatari news agency says they discussed "brotherly relations" and "other issues of mutual concern" (presumably Syria, where both countries are supporting the rebels).
In an interview on his campaign bus in Montreal, the Bloc Québécois leader, Gilles Duceppe, said he would work with any governing party on issues of mutual concern.
The work that professional and specialist associations have long performed in bringing teachers together for the discussion of issues of mutual concern is now being extended by such developments as the establishment of teachers' centres in Britain.
Later on Wednesday, Kerry and Russia's Lavrov were due to meet for the second time in three days to "discuss a range of issues of mutual concern" including the crisis in Syria, according to a senior US State Department official.
In the letter Mr. Robbins read during Monday's meeting, the mayor of Scottsdale, Jim Lane, suggested a meeting to "discuss real issues of mutual concern and benefit to our citizens".
