Borgartún 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. It is now mainly used for ceremonies for the Reykjavík City municipality. The western end of Borgartún houses a complex of buildings where the offices of many departments of the Reykjavík city government, including a centralised service centre, are housed. The service centre is home to the Icelandic national registry, Þjóðskrá Íslands. Borgartún Borgartún is a street in Reykjavík, Iceland, that in years leading up to the country's economic crisis became the centre
Stuart A. Summit appointees, and for another nine years he had screened candidates for the New York Supreme Court as part of his work for the State Commission on Judicial Nominations. Summit currently is a partner with the New York City law firm Phillips Nizer LLP. On September 23, 1987, toward the end of Ronald Reagan's presidency, Reagan nominated Summit to a seat on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit to replace Irving Kaufman, who had taken senior status. Summit's name initially had been suggested by his former law partner, Arnold I. Burns, who had been a Deputy Attorney