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Höfði (Icelandic pronunciation:) is a house in Reykjavík, Iceland, built in 1909, and best known as the location for the 1986 Reykjavík Summit meeting of President Ronald Reagan of the United States and General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev of the Soviet Union.
The former French consulate and British embassy, called Höfði, was the site of the Reykjavík Summit in 1986.. The Reykjavík Summit was a summit meeting between U.S. President Ronald Reagan and General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev, held in Reykjavík, Iceland, on 11–12 October 1986. [1]
Reagan and Gorbachev meet in Höfði, Reykjavík in 1986. Main article: Reykjavík Summit Iceland hosted a summit in Reykjavík in 1986 between United States President Ronald Reagan and Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev , during which they took significant steps toward nuclear disarmament.
While the walk to the pool house was spent talking about Reagan's films, [6]: 671 the walk back from the pool house saw Reagan and Gorbachev agreeing to continue to meet at further summits. [6]: 677 On November 20, 1985, Reagan and Gorbachev began their second day of meetings, this time at Geneva's Soviet Mission.
When Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev sit down to discuss a potential nuclear arms treaty in the upcoming film “Reykjavik,” the actors portraying them, Jeff Daniels and Jared Harris, will ...
Following the near-breakthrough of the previous year's Reykjavik Summit, and much to the chagrin of many supporters of both leaders, Reagan and Gorbachev began putting resources into INF Treaty negotiations. [1] This, in addition to various troubles foreign and domestic in both countries led to a tense time preceding the Washington Summit.
Also located in Borgartún is Höfði, a house built in 1909. [1] [2] Initially, it was the house of the French consul in Iceland. It was the place of the Iceland Summit when Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev met there in 1986. [3] It is now mainly used for ceremonies for the Reykjavík City municipality.
Höfði – the house in which Gorbachev and Reagan met in 1986 for the Iceland Summit; Kringlan – the second-largest shopping mall in Iceland; Laugardalslaug – swimming pool; Laugavegur – main shopping street; National and University Library of Iceland (Þjóðarbókhlaðan) National Museum of Iceland (Þjóðminjasafnið)