The first meeting between the Scottish Cabinet and the COSLA Presidential Team was held in Edinburgh on 11 June 2008.
The meeting was the first annual summit as outlined in the Concordat agreed between local and national government in November 2007.
A joint statement issued by First Minister Alex Salmond and COSLA President, Pat Watters CBE, said, "Today's meeting sits alongside that Concordat as an historic moment in the governance of Scotland with both the Scottish Government and local government now working jointly towards agreed outcomes under a single national purpose - to focus the Government and public services on creating a more successful country, with opportunities for all of Scotland to flourish, through increasing sustainable economic growth."
The full statement can be read on the Scottish Government website at http://www.scotland.gov.uk/News/Releases/2008/06/11155550.
