President Lennart Meri has received many congratulations from Estonia and abroad. Official congratulations on the occasion of the President's 72nd birthday were extended at Kadriorg by Toomas Savi, the Chairman of the Riigikogu, the Government of the Republic, the diplomatic corps, the Legal Chancellor Allar Jõks, the Board of the Bank of Estonia, as well as Rear Admiral Tarmo Kõuts, the Commander of the Defence Forces, and Jaano Odar, the Chairman of the Civil Chamber of the Supreme Court, and Jüri Pihl, the Director General of the Security Police.