28 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. ] :
| | BELGIUM | (Brussels) | | King Baudoin I | | |
| | UPPER VOLTA | (Ouagadougou) | | General Aboubakar Sangoule Lamizana | | |
| | BURUNDI | (Bujumbura) | | President Jean-Baptiste Bagaza | | |
| | BENIN | (Porto Novo a + Cotonou ilnqr) | | President Mathieu Kerekou | | |
| | NEW BRUNSWICK | (Fredericton) | | Hedard Joseph Robichaud | | |
| | CANADA | (Ottawa) | | Queen Elizabeth II | | |
| | ZAIRE | (Kinshasa a) | | President Mobutu Sese Seko | | |
| | CENTRAL-AFRICA | (Bangui a + Berengo r) | | Emperor Bokassa I | | |
| | IVORY COAST | (Abidjan a) | | President Felix Houphouet-Boigny | | |
| | JIBUTI | (Jibuti) | | President Hassan Gouled Aptidon | | |
| | FRANCE | (Paris) | | President Valery Giscard d´Estaing | | |
| | GABON | (Libreville) | | President Omar Bongo | | |
| | HAITI | (Port Au Prince) | | President Jean-Claude Duvalier Baby Doc | | |
| | COMOROS | (Moroni) | | Ahmed Abdallah | | |
| | LEBANON | (Beirut-East a + Baabda r) | | President Elias Sarkis | | |
| | LUXEMBOURG | (Luxembourg a) | | Grand Duke Jean | | |
| | MONACO | (Monaco q) | | Prince Rainier III | | |
| | MALI | (Bamako) | | President Moussa Traore | | |
| | MAURITIUS | (Port Louis a + Reduit in Moka r) | | Queen Elizabeth II | | |
| | NIGER | (Niamey) | | President Seyni Kountche | | |
| | QUEBEC | (Quebec City) | | Jean-Pierre Côte | | |
| | RWANDA | (Kigali) | | President Juvenal Habyarimana | | |
| | SEYCHELLES | (Port Victoria) | | President France-Albert Rene | | |
| | SENEGAL | (Dakar) | | President Leopold Sedar Senghor | | |
| | CHAD | (Ndjamena) | | Gukuni Wodei | | |
| | TOGO | (Lome) | | President Gnassingbe Eyadema | | |
| | TUNISIA | (Tunis) | | President Habib Bourguiba | | |
| | VIETNAM | (Hanoi) | | Le Duan | | |