24 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. ] :
| | AFGHANISTAN | (Kabul) | | President Burhanuddin Rabbani | | |
| | BULGARIA | (Sofia) | | President Petar Stoyanov | | |
| | BELARUS | (Minsk) | | President Alexander Lukashenko | | |
| | CUBA | (Havana) | | Supreme Leader Fidel Castro | | |
| | CZECHIA | (Prague elr + Brno dj + Lany r) | | President Vaclav Havel | | |
| | GERMANY | (Berlin ar + Bonn lr + Karlsruhe d) | | Bundespresident Johannes Rau | | |
| | GEORGIA | (Tbilisi) | | President Eduard Shevardnadze | | |
| | HUNGARY | (Budapest a) | | President Ferenc Madl | | |
| | INDIA | (New Delhi a + Simla s + Bolarum w) | | President Kocheril Raman Narayanan | | |
| | KYRGYZSTAN | (Bishkek) | | President Askar Akayev | | |
| | NORTH KOREA | (Pyongyang a) | | Kim Jong-Il | | |
| | KAZAKHSTAN | (Astana a) | | President Nursultan Nazarbayev | | |
| | LAOS | (Vientiane) | | Khamtai Siphandon | | |
| | MONGOLIA | (Ulan-Bator) | | President Natsagiyn Bagabandi | | |
| | NICARAGUA | (Managua) | | President Arnoldo Aleman | | |
| | POLAND | (Warsaw a) | | President Alexander Kwasniewski | | |
| | ROMANIA | (Bucharest) | | President Ion Iliescu | | |
| | RUSSIA | (Moscow) | | President Vladimir Putin | | |
| | SYRIA | (Damascus) | | President Bashar Al-Assad | | |
| | TAJIKISTAN | (Dushanbe) | | President Emomali Rakhmonov | | |
| | TURKMENISTAN | (Ashgabat) | | President Turkmenbashi Saparmurat Niyazov | | |
| | UKRAINE | (Kiev) | | President Leonid Kuchma | | |
| | VIETNAM | (Hanoi) | | Nong Duc Manh | | |
| | YEMEN | (Sanaa) | | President Ali Abdullah Saleh | | |