78 Members (excluding the associate or suspended members but including the countries represented on their behalf) [The rulers are not necessarily the representatives in the organisation. ] :
 |  | UNITED ARAB EMIRATES | (Abu Dhabi ar) |  | President Sheikh Zayed II bin Sultan Al Nahyan |  | |
 |  | ANGOLA | (Luanda) |  | President Jose Eduardo dos Santos |  | |
 |  | ARGENTINE | (Buenos Aires a + Olivos r) |  | President Carlos Menem |  | |
 |  | AUSTRIA | (Vienna) |  | President Thomas Klestil |  | |
 |  | BELGIUM | (Brussels) |  | King Albert II | | |
 |  | BURKINA FASO | (Ouagadougou) |  | President Blaise Compaore | | |
 |  | BURUNDI | (Bujumbura) |  | President Pierre Buyoya | | |
 |  | BENIN | (Porto Novo a + Cotonou ilnqr) |  | President Mathieu Kerekou | | |
 |  | BRAZIL | (Brasilia) |  | President Fernando Henrique Cardoso | | |
 |  | BOTSWANA | (Gaborone) |  | President Quett Masire | | |
 |  | CANADA | (Ottawa) |  | Queen Elizabeth II |  | |
 |  | ZAIRE | (Kinshasa a) |  | President Mobutu Sese Seko | | |
 |  | CENTRAL-AFRICA | (Bangui) |  | President Ange-Felix Patasse | | |
 |  | CONGO | (Brazzaville a + Pointe Noire n) |  | President Pascal Lissouba | | |
 |  | SWITZERLAND | (Berne lq + Lausanne j) |  | President Jean-Pascal Delamuraz | | |
 |  | COTE D´IVOIRE | (Yamoussoukro a + Abidjan dln) |  | President Henri Konan Bedie | | |
 |  | CAMEROON | (Yaounde) |  | President Paul Biya | | |
 |  | CHINA | (Beijing) |  | Jiang Zemin | | |
 |  | CAPE VERDE | (Praia) |  | President Antonio Mascarenhas Monteiro | | |
 |  | GERMANY | (Berlin ar + Bonn lr + Karlsruhe d) |  | Bundespresident Roman Herzog | | |
 |  | JIBUTI | (Jibuti) |  | President Hassan Gouled Aptidon | | |
 |  | DENMARK | (Copenhagen) |  | Queen Margaret II | | |
 |  | ALGERIA | (Algiers a + El Biar d + El Mouradia r) |  | President Liamine Zeroual | | |
 |  | EGYPT | (Cairo a + Alexandria r) |  | President Hosni Mubarak | | |
 |  | ERITREA | (Asmara) |  | President Isaias Afewerki | | |
 |  | SPAIN | (Madrid) |  | King Juan Carlos I | | |
 |  | ETHIOPIA | (Addis Ababa) |  | President Negasso Gidada | | |
 |  | FINLAND | (Helsinki a + Kultaranta s) |  | President Martti Ahtisaari | | |
 |  | FRANCE | (Paris) |  | President Jacques Chirac | | |
 |  | GABON | (Libreville) |  | President Omar Bongo | | |
 |  | GHANA | (Accra) |  | President Jerry John Rawlings | | |
 |  | GAMBIA | (Banjul) |  | Yahya Jammeh | | |
 |  | GUINEA | (Conakry) |  | President Lansana Conte | | |
 |  | EQUATORIAL GUINEA | (Malabo a) |  | President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo | | |
 |  | GUINEA-BISSAU | (Bissau) |  | President Joao Bernardo Vieira | | |
 |  | INDIA | (New Delhi a + Simla s + Bolarum w) |  | President Shankar Dayal Sharma | | |
 |  | ITALY | (Rome a) |  | President Oscar Luigi Scalfaro | | |
 |  | JAPAN | (Tokyo) |  | Emperor Akihito | | |
 |  | KENYA | (Nairobi) |  | President Daniel Arap Moi | | |
 |  | COMOROS | (Moroni) |  | President Mohamed Taki Abdoulkarim | | |
 |  | SOUTH KOREA | (Seoul a) |  | President Kim Young-Sam | | |
 |  | KUWAIT | (Kuwait City) |  | Emir Sheikh Jabir III Al Ahmad Al Jabir Al Sabah | | |
 |  | LIBERIA | (Monrovia) |  | Ruth Sando Perry | | |
 |  | LESOTHO | (Maseru) |  | King Letsie III | | |
 |  | LIBYA | (Tripoli a) |  | Guide Muammar Gaddafi | | |
 |  | MOROCCO | (Rabat a) |  | King Hassan II | | |
 |  | MADAGASCAR | (Tananarive) |  | Norbert Lala Ratsirahonana | | |
 |  | MALI | (Bamako) |  | President Alpha Oumar Konare | | |
 |  | MAURITANIA | (Nouakchott) |  | President Maaouya Ould Sid´Ahmed Taya | | |
 |  | MAURITIUS | (Port Louis a + Reduit in Moka r) |  | President Cassam Uteem | | |
 |  | MALAWI | (Lilongwe a + Zomba b) |  | President Bakili Muluzi | | |
 |  | MOZAMBIQUE | (Maputo) |  | President Joaquim Chissano | | |
 |  | NAMIBIA | (Windhoek) |  | President Sam Nujoma | | |
 |  | NIGER | (Niamey) |  | President Ibrahim Bare Mainassara | | |
 |  | NIGERIA | (Abuja a) |  | General Sani Abacha | | |
 |  | NETHERLANDS | (Amsterdam a + The Hague jlr + Wassenaar r) |  | Queen Beatrix | | |
 |  | NORWAY | (Oslo) |  | King Harald V | | |
 |  | PORTUGAL | (Lisbon) |  | President Jorge Sampaio | | |
 |  | RWANDA | (Kigali) |  | President Pasteur Bizimungu | | |
 |  | SAUDI ARABIA | (Riyadh) |  | King Fahd | | |
 |  | SEYCHELLES | (Port Victoria) |  | President France-Albert Rene | | |
 |  | SUDAN | (Khartoum) |  | President Omar Al-Bashir | | |
 |  | SWEDEN | (Stockholm) |  | King Charles XVI Gustav | | |
 |  | SIERRA LEONE | (Freetown) |  | President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah | | |
 |  | SENEGAL | (Dakar) |  | President Abdou Diouf | | |
 |  | SOMALIA | (Mogadishu) |  | President Ali Mahdi Muhammad | | |
 |  | SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE | (Sao Tome) |  | President Miguel Trovoada | | |
 |  | SWAZILAND | (Mbabane aj + Lobamba lr) |  | King Mswati III | | |
 |  | CHAD | (Ndjamena) |  | President Idriss Deby | | |
 |  | TOGO | (Lome) |  | President Gnassingbe Eyadema | | |
 |  | TUNISIA | (Tunis) |  | President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali | | |
 |  | TANZANIA | (Dodoma City al + Dar Es Salaam jnqr) |  | President Benjamin Mkapa | | |
 |  | UGANDA | (Kampala a + Entebbe r) |  | President Yoweri Museveni | | |
 |  | UNITED KINGDOM | (London a + Westminster lr + Edinburgh s + Windsor r) | | Queen Elizabeth II | | |
 |  | AMERICA | (Washington-District of Columbia) |  | President Bill Clinton | | |
 |  | SOUTH AFRICA | (Pretoria ae + Cape Town l + Bloemfontein j + Johannesburg d) |  | President Nelson Mandela | | |
 |  | ZAMBIA | (Lusaka) |  | President Frederick Chiluba | | |
 |  | ZIMBABWE | (Harare) |  | President Robert Mugabe | | |
