Coat of arms of the Poyais.

According to the Article 23 of Constitution, the state symbols of the Azerbaijan Republic are the flag, the coat of arms and the national anthem.

Russia s split personality symbolized by its Tsarist coat of arms, a two headed eagle has been on open display recently.

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, for his part, has proposed lifting the immunity that past prime ministers enjoyed in connection with the sale of peerages.

The cultural dominance of men in Vanuatu society is symbolized on the coat of arms which contains three symbols of importance in Vanuatu a male chief, the full circled tusk of a pig and the namele leaf (Cycas circinnalis).

Instead, the world gaped at the nobility of spirit displayed each and every day before the TRC, as victims of gruesome atrocities forgave their tormentors and even embraced them on occasion.

As the national language, Bislama functions more than just the major lingua franca within Vanuatu as it also carries some of the emblematic functions that are typically associated with a national language Vanuatu's coinage is inscribed in Bislama only (Ripablik blong Vanuatu Republic of Vanuatu') while the motto on the national coat of arms is given in Bislama (Long God yumi stanap In God we stand').

For the purpose of this report, it was found that the warrior chief on the coat of arms was adopted at Independence from an engraving by Captain John Elphinstone Erskine (1851) with one difference the original etching contained the warrior chief and a mother wife carrying a child.