48 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. ] :
 |  | ALBANIA | (Tirana) |  | President Rexhep Mejdani |  | |
 |  | AUSTRIA | (Vienna) |  | President Thomas Klestil | | |
 |  | AUSTRALIA | (Canberra) |  | Sir William Deane |  | |
 |  | BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA | (Sarajevo) |  | President Ante Jelavich | | |
 |  | BELGIUM | (Brussels) |  | King Albert II | | |
 |  | BULGARIA | (Sofia) |  | President Petar Stoyanov | | |
 |  | BRAZIL | (Brasilia) |  | President Fernando Henrique Cardoso |  | |
 |  | CANADA | (Ottawa) |  | Queen Elizabeth II |  | |
 |  | SWITZERLAND | (Berne lq + Lausanne j) |  | President Ruth Dreifuss | | |
 |  | CHINA | (Beijing) |  | Jiang Zemin |  | |
 |  | CZECHIA | (Prague elr + Brno dj + Lany r) |  | President Vaclav Havel | | |
 |  | GERMANY | (Berlin ar + Bonn lr + Karlsruhe d) |  | Bundespresident Johannes Rau | | |
 |  | 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 Romano Prodi | | |
 |  | FINLAND | (Helsinki a + Kultaranta s) |  | President Martti Ahtisaari | | |
 |  | FRANCE | (Paris) |  | President Jacques Chirac | | |
 |  | GREECE | (Athens a) |  | President Kostis Stephanopoulos | | |
 |  | HONG KONG | (Victoria City) | | Jiang Zemin | | |
 |  | CROATIA | (Zagreb) |  | President Franjo Tudjman | | |
 |  | HUNGARY | (Budapest a) |  | President Arpad Goncz | | |
 |  | IRELAND | (Dublin) |  | President Mary McAleese | | |
 |  | INDIA | (New Delhi a + Simla s + Bolarum w) |  | President Kocheril Raman Narayanan | | |
 |  | ICELAND | (Reykjavik a + Alftanes r) |  | President Olafur Ragnar Grimsson | | |
 |  | ITALY | (Rome a) |  | President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi | | |
 |  | JAPAN | (Tokyo) |  | Emperor Akihito | | |
 |  | SOUTH KOREA | (Seoul a) |  | President Kim Dae-Jung | | |
 |  | LITHUANIA | (Vilnius) |  | President Valdas Adamkus | | |
 |  | LATVIA | (Riga) |  | President Vaira Vike-Freiberga | | |
 |  | MACEDONIA | (Skopje) |  | Savo Klimovski | | |
 |  | MEXICO | (Mexico City) |  | President Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Leon | | |
 |  | NETHERLANDS | (Amsterdam a + The Hague jlr + Wassenaar r) |  | Queen Beatrix | | |
 |  | NORWAY | (Oslo) |  | King Harald V | | |
 |  | POLAND | (Warsaw a) |  | President Alexander Kwasniewski | | |
 |  | PORTUGAL | (Lisbon) |  | President Jorge Sampaio | | |
 |  | ROMANIA | (Bucharest) |  | President Emil Constantinescu | | |
 |  | RUSSIA | (Moscow) |  | President Boris Yeltsin | | |
 |  | SAUDI ARABIA | (Riyadh) |  | King Fahd | | |
 |  | SWEDEN | (Stockholm) |  | King Charles XVI Gustav | | |
 |  | SINGAPORE | (Singapore) |  | President Sellapan Ramanathan Nathan | | |
 |  | SLOVENIA | (Ljubljana) |  | President Milan Kucan | | |
 |  | SLOVAKIA | (Bratislava a + Kosice d) |  | President Rudolf Schuster | | |
 |  | TURKEY | (Ankara a) |  | President Suleyman Demirel | | |
 |  | UNITED KINGDOM | (London a + Westminster lr + Edinburgh s + Windsor r) | | Queen Elizabeth II | | |
 |  | AMERICA | (Washington-District of Columbia) |  | President Bill Clinton | | |
 |  | YUGOSLAVIA | (Belgrade) |  | President Slobodan Milosevich | | |
 |  | SOUTH AFRICA | (Pretoria ae + Cape Town l + Bloemfontein j + Johannesburg d) |  | President Thabo Mbeki |  | |
