42 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. ] :
 |  | NETHERLANDS ANTILLES | (Willemstad) |  | Queen Beatrix |  | |
 |  | ARGENTINE | (Buenos Aires a + Olivos r) |  | President Carlos Menem |  | |
 |  | BELGIUM | (Brussels) |  | King Baudoin I |  | |
 |  | BULGARIA | (Sofia) |  | Zhelyu Zhelev | | |
 |  | BRAZIL | (Brasilia) |  | President Fernando Collor de Mello | | |
 |  | CANADA | (Ottawa) |  | Queen Elizabeth II | | |
 |  | SWITZERLAND | (Berne lq + Lausanne j) |  | President Arnold Koller | | |
 |  | CHILE | (Santiago of Chile a + Valparaiso l + Vina del Mar s) |  | President Patricio Aylwin | | |
 |  | CHINA | (Beijing) |  | Deng Xiaoping the Little Helmsman |  | |
 |  | COLOMBIA | (Bogota) |  | President Cesar Gaviria | | |
 |  | COSTA RICA | (San Jose) |  | President Rafael Angel Calderon Fournier | | |
 |  | GERMANY | (Berlin a + Bonn lr + Karlsruhe d) |  | Bundespresident Richard von Weizsaecker | | |
 |  | DENMARK | (Copenhagen) |  | Queen Margaret II | | |
 |  | SPAIN | (Madrid) |  | King Juan Carlos I | | |
 |  | FINLAND | (Helsinki a + Kultaranta s) |  | President Mauno Koivisto | | |
 |  | FRANCE | (Paris) |  | President Francois Mitterrand | | |
 |  | GREECE | (Athens a) |  | President Constantine Karamanlis | | |
 |  | GUATEMALA | (Guatemala City) |  | President Marco Vinicio Cerezo Arevalo | | |
 |  | HONG KONG | (Victoria City) |  | | | |
 |  | IRELAND | (Dublin) |  | President Patrick John Hillery | | |
 |  | ITALY | (Rome a) |  | President Francesco Cossiga | | |
 |  | JAPAN | (Tokyo) |  | Emperor Akihito | | |
 |  | NORTH KOREA | (Pyongyang a) |  | Kim Il-Sung | | |
 |  | SOUTH KOREA | (Seoul a) |  | President Roh Tae-Woo | | |
 |  | MOROCCO | (Rabat a) |  | King Hassan II |  | |
 |  | MEXICO | (Mexico City) |  | President Carlos Salinas de Gortari | | |
 |  | NIGERIA | (Lagos a + Abuja f) |  | President Ibrahim Babangida | | |
 |  | NETHERLANDS | (Amsterdam a + The Hague jlr + Wassenaar r) | | Queen Beatrix | | |
 |  | NORWAY | (Oslo) |  | King Olav V | | |
 |  | PANAMA | (Panama City) |  | President Guillermo Endara Galimany | | |
 |  | PERU | (Lima a + Arequipa d) |  | President Alberto Fujimori | | |
 |  | PHILIPPINES | (Manila acr + Quezon City b + Pasay City b) |  | President Cory Aquino | | |
 |  | PORTUGAL | (Lisbon) |  | President Mario Soares | | |
 |  | SWEDEN | (Stockholm) |  | King Charles XVI Gustav | | |
 |  | SOVIET UNION | (Moscow) |  | Mikhail Gorbachev | | |
 |  | TURKEY | (Ankara a) |  | President Turgut Ozal | | |
 |  | UNITED KINGDOM | (London a + Westminster lr + Edinburgh s + Windsor r) | | Queen Elizabeth II | | |
 |  | AMERICA | (Washington-District of Columbia) |  | President George Herbert Walker Bush | | |
 |  | URUGUAY | (Montevideo) |  | President Luis Alberto Lacalle | | |
 |  | VENEZUELA | (Caracas) |  | President Carlos Andres Perez | | |
 |  | AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND | (Brisbane + Melbourne + Auckland) |  | Ian Mackay (nz) |  | |
 |  | SOUTH AFRICA | (Pretoria ae + Cape Town l + Bloemfontein j) |  | State President Frederik Willem de Klerk | | |
