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 Georgi Parvanov | | |
 |  | BRUNEI DARUSSALAM | (Bandar Seri Begawan) |  | Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah |  | |
 |  | CHINA | (Beijing) |  | Hu Jintao | | |
 |  | CYPRUS | (Nicosia) |  | President Tassos Papadopoulos | | |
 |  | CZECHIA | (Prague elr + Brno dj + Lany r) |  | President Vaclav Klaus | | |
 |  | GERMANY | (Berlin ar + Bonn lr + Karlsruhe d) |  | Bundespresident Johannes Rau | | |
 |  | DENMARK | (Copenhagen) |  | Queen Margaret II | | |
 |  | ESTONIA | (Tallinn a + Tartu b) |  | President Arnold Ruutel | | |
 |  | SPAIN | (Madrid) |  | King Juan Carlos I | | |
 |  | EUROPEAN UNION | (Brussels a + Luxembourg j + Strasbourg l) |  | President Romano Prodi | | |
 |  | FINLAND | (Helsinki a + Kultaranta s) |  | President Tarja Halonen | | |
 |  | FRANCE | (Paris) |  | President Jacques Chirac | | |
 |  | GREECE | (Athens a) |  | President Kostis Stephanopoulos | | |
 |  | HUNGARY | (Budapest a) |  | President Ferenc Madl | | |
 |  | INDONESIA | (Jakarta a + Bogor r + Chipanas r + Yogyakarta r + Tampaksiring r) |  | President Megawati Sukarnoputri | | |
 |  | IRELAND | (Dublin) |  | President Mary McAleese | | |
 |  | ITALY | (Rome a) |  | President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi | | |
 |  | JAPAN | (Tokyo) |  | Emperor Akihito | | |
 |  | CAMBODIA | (Phnom Penh) |  | Chea Sim | | |
 |  | SOUTH KOREA | (Seoul a) |  | Goh Kun | | |
 |  | LAOS | (Vientiane) |  | Khamtai Siphandon | | |
 |  | LITHUANIA | (Vilnius) |  | Arturas Paulauskas | | |
 |  | LUXEMBOURG | (Luxembourg a) |  | Grand Duke Henri | | |
 |  | LATVIA | (Riga) |  | President Vaira Vike-Freiberga | | |
 |  | MYANMAR | (Yangon a) |  | Than Shwe | | |
 |  | MALTA | (Valletta a + Attard r + Siggiewi s) |  | President Edward Fenech-Adami |  | |
 |  | MALAYSIA | (Putrajaya aj + Kuala Lumpur ejlry) |  | Raja Syed Sirajuddin I | | |
 |  | NETHERLANDS | (Amsterdam a + The Hague jlr + Wassenaar r) |  | Queen Beatrix | | |
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