27 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 | | |
 |  | BULGARIA | (Sofia) |  | President Georgi Parvanov | | |
 |  | BELARUS | (Minsk) |  | President Alexander Lukashenko | | |
 |  | SWITZERLAND | (Berne lq + Lausanne j) |  | President Kaspar Villiger | | |
 |  | NATO | (Brussels) |  | SG Lord George Robertson of Port Ellen (uk) | | |
 |  | ESTONIA | (Tallinn a + Tartu b) |  | President Arnold Ruutel | | |
 |  | FINLAND | (Helsinki a + Kultaranta s) |  | President Tarja Halonen | | |
 |  | GEORGIA | (Tbilisi) |  | President Eduard Shevardnadze | | |
 |  | CROATIA | (Zagreb) |  | President Stipe Mesich | | |
 |  | IRELAND | (Dublin) |  | President Mary McAleese | | |
 |  | KYRGYZSTAN | (Bishkek) |  | President Askar Akayev | | |
 |  | KAZAKHSTAN | (Astana a) |  | President Nursultan Nazarbayev | | |
 |  | LITHUANIA | (Vilnius) |  | President Valdas Adamkus | | |
 |  | LATVIA | (Riga) |  | President Vaira Vike-Freiberga | | |
 |  | MOLDOVA | (Chisinau) |  | President Vladimir Voronin | | |
 |  | MACEDONIA | (Skopje) |  | President Boris Trajkovski | | |
 |  | ROMANIA | (Bucharest) |  | President Ion Iliescu | | |
 |  | RUSSIA | (Moscow) |  | President Vladimir Putin | | |
 |  | SLOVENIA | (Ljubljana) |  | President Milan Kucan | | |
 |  | SLOVAKIA | (Bratislava a + Kosice d) |  | President Rudolf Schuster | | |
 |  | TAJIKISTAN | (Dushanbe) |  | President Emomali Rakhmonov | | |
 |  | TURKMENISTAN | (Ashgabat) |  | President Turkmenbashi Saparmurat Niyazov | | |
 |  | UKRAINE | (Kiev) |  | President Leonid Kuchma | | |
 |  | UZBEKISTAN | (Tashkent a + Durman r) |  | President Islam Karimov | | |
