55 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. ] :
 |  | ARMENIA | (Erevan) |  | President Levon Ter-Petrosyan |  | |
 |  | AUSTRIA | (Vienna) |  | President Thomas Klestil |  | |
 |  | AUSTRALIA | (Canberra) |  | Sir William Deane |  | |
 |  | AZERBAIJAN | (Baku) |  | President Geydar Aliyev | | |
 |  | BANGLADESH | (Dhaka a) |  | President Shahabuddin Ahmed | | |
 |  | BELGIUM | (Brussels) |  | King Albert II | | |
 |  | BULGARIA | (Sofia) |  | President Petar Stoyanov | | |
 |  | BRAZIL | (Brasilia) |  | President Fernando Henrique Cardoso |  | |
 |  | BELARUS | (Minsk) |  | President Alexander Lukashenko | | |
 |  | CANADA | (Ottawa) |  | Queen Elizabeth II |  | |
 |  | SWITZERLAND | (Berne lq + Lausanne j) |  | President Flavio Cotti | | |
 |  | CHILE | (Santiago of Chile a + Valparaiso l + Vina del Mar s) |  | President Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle | | |
 |  | CHINA | (Beijing) |  | Jiang Zemin | | |
 |  | COLOMBIA | (Santafe of Bogota) |  | President Ernesto Samper Pizano | | |
 |  | CUBA | (Havana) |  | Supreme Leader Fidel Castro | | |
 |  | 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 | | |
 |  | EGYPT | (Cairo a + Alexandria r) |  | President Hosni Mubarak |  | |
 |  | FINLAND | (Helsinki a + Kultaranta s) |  | President Martti Ahtisaari | | |
 |  | FRANCE | (Paris) |  | President Jacques Chirac | | |
 |  | GEORGIA | (Tbilisi) |  | President Eduard Shevardnadze | | |
 |  | GREECE | (Athens a) |  | President Kostis Stephanopoulos | | |
 |  | CROATIA | (Zagreb) |  | President Franjo Tudjman | | |
 |  | HUNGARY | (Budapest a) |  | President Arpad Goncz | | |
 |  | IRELAND | (Dublin) |  | President Mary McAleese | | |
 |  | ISRAEL | (Jerusalem aru + Tel Aviv-Jaffa i) |  | President Ezer Weizman | | |
 |  | INDIA | (New Delhi a + Simla s + Bolarum w) |  | President Kocheril Raman Narayanan | | |
 |  | ITALY | (Rome a) |  | President Oscar Luigi Scalfaro | | |
 |  | KYRGYZSTAN | (Bishkek) |  | President Askar Akayev | | |
 |  | KAZAKHSTAN | (Akmola a) |  | President Nursultan Nazarbayev | | |
 |  | LAOS | (Vientiane) |  | Khamtai Siphandon | | |
 |  | SRI LANKA | (Sri Jayewardenepura Kotte al + Colombo ejnr + Kandy r) |  | President Chandrika Kumaratunga | | |
 |  | LITHUANIA | (Vilnius) |  | President Algirdas-Mikolas Brazauskas | | |
 |  | LATVIA | (Riga) |  | President Guntis Ulmanis | | |
 |  | MOLDOVA | (Chisinau) |  | President Petru Lucinschi | | |
 |  | MADAGASCAR | (Tananarive) |  | President Didier Ratsiraka | | |
 |  | MEXICO | (Mexico City) |  | President Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Leon | | |
 |  | MOZAMBIQUE | (Maputo) |  | President Joaquim Chissano | | |
 |  | NEW ZEALAND | (Wellington) | | Queen Elizabeth II | | |
 |  | PAKISTAN | (Islamabad) |  | President Mohammad Rafiq Tarar | | |
 |  | PALESTINE | (Abu Dis t + Gaza br + Ramallah qr + Hebron r) |  | President Yasser Arafat | | |
 |  | PORTUGAL | (Lisbon) |  | President Jorge Sampaio | | |
 |  | SWEDEN | (Stockholm) |  | King Charles XVI Gustav | | |
 |  | SYRIA | (Damascus) |  | President Hafez Al-Assad | | |
 |  | TAJIKISTAN | (Dushanbe) |  | President Emomali Rakhmonov | | |
 |  | TURKMENISTAN | (Ashgabat) |  | President Turkmenbashi Saparmurat Niyazov | | |
 |  | UKRAINE | (Kiev) |  | President Leonid Kuchma | | |
 |  | UNITED KINGDOM | (London a + Westminster lr + Edinburgh s + Windsor r) | | Queen Elizabeth II | | |
 |  | AMERICA | (Washington-District of Columbia) |  | President Bill Clinton | | |
 |  | URUGUAY | (Montevideo) |  | President Julio Maria Sanguinetti Coirolo | | |
 |  | VENEZUELA | (Caracas) |  | President Rafael Caldera | | |
 |  | VIETNAM | (Hanoi) |  | Le Kha Phieu | | |
 |  | YUGOSLAVIA | (Belgrade) |  | President Slobodan Milosevich | | |
 |  | SOUTH AFRICA | (Pretoria ae + Cape Town l + Bloemfontein j + Johannesburg d) |  | President Nelson Mandela | | |
