For President Lennart Meri’s 70th birthday, congratulations have arrived also from George Soros and the Open Society Institute, Open Estonian Foundation, Kaido Kama and the Võro Institute, the Saare and Tartu County Governments, The Episcopal Dome Congregation of Tallinn, Viivi and Ants Ernesaks, Muhu municipal government and municipal council, the Viiratsi Orphanage, the Keila municipal government and municipal council, the "Lepatriinu" kindergarten in the Anija municipality, from the children of the “Pääsupesa" kindergarten at Loo, from the Haapsalu Primary School, the students and teachers of the Kehra Secondary School, from the Fenno-Ugria institution, from the SOS-Kinderdorf in Keila, from the Hiiu Kalur Ltd, from the Danish Culture Institute in Tallinn, from the Viljandi Cultural Society “Koit”, from the Latvian Estonian Society, the Estonian Theatre Society, the Estonian Cinematographers’s Society, the Estonian Actors Union, the Finnish Home Decoration Society, and the Estonian Union Bank. Congratulations have also arrived from the “Otava” publishing house in Finland, from Mark Soosaar, Archbishop Kornelius and the Tampere Tartu Society.

Among other Heads of State, also the Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari, the President of the Federal Republic of Germany Roman Herzog and Harald V the King of Norway have congratulated President Lennart Meri.


Press Service of the Office of the President
Kadriorg, March 29, 1999

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