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The Instituto Centroamericano de Administración Pública (ICAP), based at San José, Costa Rica, is an international, governmental organism, self-styled "an institution in the service of public administration and integration in Central America". Created in 1954 by the governments of Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica as the Escuela Superior de Administración Pública en América Central (ESAPAC, High School of Public Administration in Central America), the ICAP took its current name in 1967 (convention signed on 17 February 1967 in San José, Costa Rica, http://www.oas.org/juridico/spanish/firmas/f-79.html). Panamá joined the ICAP in 1961. The ICAP is ruled by a General Board made of the Ministers of Economy of the participating countries.
The aim of the ICAP are:
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by Ivan Sache, 9 February 2008
The emblem of the ICAP symbolizes the principle of integrationist
aspiration of the region, emphasized by the set up of republics in the
XIXth century. It alludes to the principles of equality, fraternity,
liberty, republicanism, progress and peace. It includes elements from
the emblem of each country of the region.
The equilateral triangle represents with its three equal sides the
equality in rights and duties of the countries to decide of their
future.
The group of five volcanoes surrounded by a sea and an ocean represents
not only the morphologic and geographic characteristics of the isthmus
but recalls also the historic process of evolution of the territory.
The sun represents the strength of light and the hope of the new
dawn.
The Phrygian cap symbolized the struggle for liberty and republicanism.
Emblem of the formation of the French Republic, it represents the
recognition of the Central American countries as free and sovereign
republics.
The representation of the world as a "wheel" evokes the integration
into the concert of the nations.
Two branches of olive symbolize knowledge, growth and respect of the
right to peace, shared by the peoples and the states.
The knot in the ribbon represents fraternity and solidarity among the
Central American countries.
The sky represents truth, serenity, sincerity and responsibility in the
everyday's life.
Source: Description of the symbols,
ICAP website
Regarding the above statement about the inclusion of symbols of each
member country in the ICAP emblem, the five volcanoes, the sea, the
triangle, the sun and the Phrygian cap already appeared in the emblem
of the United Provinces of Central America and on the emblems of the
subsequent Central American federations. Some of these elements were
retained in the emblems of the countries after the disbanding of the
federations: