41 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. ] :
 |  | AUSTRIA | (Vienna) |  | President Thomas Klestil |  | |
 |  | BELGIUM | (Brussels) |  | King Albert II | | |
 |  | BULGARIA | (Sofia) |  | President Petar Stoyanov | | |
 |  | BRUNEI DARUSSALAM | (Bandar Seri Begawan) |  | Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah |  | |
 |  | CHINA | (Beijing) |  | Jiang Zemin | | |
 |  | CYPRUS | (Nicosia) |  | President Glafkos Kliridis | | |
 |  | CZECHIA | (Prague elr + Brno dj + Lany r) |  | President Vaclav Havel | | |
 |  | GERMANY | (Berlin ar + Bonn lr + Karlsruhe d) |  | Bundespresident Roman Herzog | | |
 |  | DENMARK | (Copenhagen) |  | Queen Margaret II | | |
 |  | ESTONIA | (Tallinn a + Tartu b) |  | President Lennart-Georg Meri | | |
 |  | SPAIN | (Madrid) |  | King Juan Carlos I | | |
 |  | EUROPEAN UNION | (Brussels a + Luxembourg j + Strasbourg l) |  | President Jacques Santer | | |
 |  | FINLAND | (Helsinki a + Kultaranta s) |  | President Martti Ahtisaari | | |
 |  | FRANCE | (Paris) |  | President Jacques Chirac | | |
 |  | GREECE | (Athens a) |  | President Kostis Stephanopoulos | | |
 |  | HUNGARY | (Budapest a) |  | President Arpad Goncz | | |
 |  | INDONESIA | (Jakarta a + Bogor r + Chipanas r + Yogyakarta r + Tampaksiring r) |  | President Bacharuddin Jusef Habibie | | |
 |  | IRELAND | (Dublin) |  | President Mary McAleese | | |
 |  | ITALY | (Rome a) |  | President Oscar Luigi Scalfaro | | |
 |  | JAPAN | (Tokyo) |  | Emperor Akihito | | |
 |  | CAMBODIA | (Phnom Penh) |  | King Norodom Sihanouk | | |
 |  | SOUTH KOREA | (Seoul a) |  | President Kim Dae-Jung | | |
 |  | LAOS | (Vientiane) |  | Khamtai Siphandon | | |
 |  | LITHUANIA | (Vilnius) |  | President Valdas Adamkus | | |
 |  | LUXEMBOURG | (Luxembourg a) |  | Grand Duke Jean | | |
 |  | LATVIA | (Riga) |  | President Guntis Ulmanis | | |
 |  | MYANMAR | (Yangon a) |  | Than Shwe | | |
 |  | MALTA | (Valletta a + Attard r + Siggiewi s) |  | President Ugo Mifsud Bonnici |  | |
 |  | MALAYSIA | (Kuala Lumpur) |  | Tuanku Jaafar ibni al-Marhum Yamtuan Abdul Rahman | | |
 |  | NETHERLANDS | (Amsterdam a + The Hague jlr + Wassenaar r) |  | Queen Beatrix | | |
 |  | PHILIPPINES | (Manila acr + Quezon City b + Pasay City b) |  | President Joseph Estrada | | |
 |  | POLAND | (Warsaw a) |  | President Alexander Kwasniewski | | |
 |  | PORTUGAL | (Lisbon) |  | President Jorge Sampaio | | |
 |  | ROMANIA | (Bucharest) |  | President Emil Constantinescu | | |
 |  | SWEDEN | (Stockholm) |  | King Charles XVI Gustav | | |
 |  | SINGAPORE | (Singapore) |  | President Ong Teng Cheong | | |
 |  | SLOVENIA | (Ljubljana) |  | President Milan Kucan | | |
 |  | SLOVAKIA | (Bratislava a + Kosice d) |  | Vladimir Meciar | | |
 |  | THAILAND | (Bangkok) |  | King Rama IX Bhumibol Adulyadej | | |
 |  | UNITED KINGDOM | (London a + Westminster lr + Edinburgh s + Windsor r) |  | Queen Elizabeth II | | |
 |  | VIETNAM | (Hanoi) |  | Le Kha Phieu | | |
