45 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 |  | |
 |  | ARMENIA | (Erevan) |  | President Robert Kocharyan |  | |
 |  | AUSTRIA | (Vienna) |  | President Thomas Klestil | | |
 |  | AZERBAIJAN | (Baku) |  | President Geydar Aliyev | | |
 |  | BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA | (Sarajevo) |  | President Zivko Radishich | | |
 |  | BELGIUM | (Brussels) |  | King Albert II | | |
 |  | BULGARIA | (Sofia) |  | President Petar Stoyanov | | |
 |  | BELARUS | (Minsk) |  | President Alexander Lukashenko | | |
 |  | CANADA | (Ottawa) |  | Queen Elizabeth II |  | |
 |  | SWITZERLAND | (Berne lq + Lausanne j) |  | President Adolf Ogi | | |
 |  | 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 | | |
 |  | NATO | (Brussels) |  | SG Lord George Robertson of Port Ellen (uk) | | |
 |  | SPAIN | (Madrid) |  | King Juan Carlos I | | |
 |  | FINLAND | (Helsinki a + Kultaranta s) |  | President Tarja Halonen | | |
 |  | GEORGIA | (Tbilisi) |  | President Eduard Shevardnadze | | |
 |  | GREECE | (Athens a) |  | President Kostis Stephanopoulos | | |
 |  | HUNGARY | (Budapest a) |  | President Ferenc Madl | | |
 |  | IRELAND | (Dublin) |  | President Mary McAleese | | |
 |  | ICELAND | (Reykjavik a + Alftanes r) |  | President Olafur Ragnar Grimsson | | |
 |  | ITALY | (Rome a) |  | President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi | | |
 |  | KYRGYZSTAN | (Bishkek) |  | President Askar Akayev | | |
 |  | KAZAKHSTAN | (Astana a) |  | President Nursultan Nazarbayev | | |
 |  | LUXEMBOURG | (Luxembourg a) |  | Grand Duke Henri | | |
 |  | MOLDOVA | (Chisinau) |  | President Petru Lucinschi | | |
 |  | MACEDONIA | (Skopje) |  | President Boris Trajkovski | | |
 |  | MALTA | (Valletta a + Attard r + Siggiewi s) |  | President Guido de Marco |  | |
 |  | 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 Vladimir Putin | | |
 |  | SWEDEN | (Stockholm) |  | King Charles XVI Gustav | | |
 |  | SLOVAKIA | (Bratislava a + Kosice d) |  | President Rudolf Schuster | | |
 |  | INDEPENDENT STATES | (Minsk + Moscow) |  | Secretary Yury Yarov | | |
 |  | TAJIKISTAN | (Dushanbe) |  | President Emomali Rakhmonov | | |
 |  | TURKMENISTAN | (Ashgabat) |  | President Turkmenbashi Saparmurat Niyazov | | |
 |  | TURKEY | (Ankara a) |  | President Ahmet Necdet Sezer | | |
 |  | 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 | | |
 |  | UZBEKISTAN | (Tashkent a) |  | President Islam Karimov | | |
 |  | YUGOSLAVIA | (Belgrade) |  | President Vojislav Koshtunitsa | | |
