20 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. ] :
 |  | ARGENTINE | (Buenos Aires a + Olivos r) |  | President Fernando de la Rua |  | |
 |  | AUSTRALIA | (Canberra) |  | Sir William Deane |  | |
 |  | BRAZIL | (Brasilia) |  | President Fernando Henrique Cardoso | | |
 |  | CANADA | (Ottawa) |  | Queen Elizabeth II |  | |
 |  | CHINA | (Beijing) |  | Jiang Zemin |  | |
 |  | GERMANY | (Berlin ar + Bonn lr + Karlsruhe d) |  | Bundespresident Johannes Rau |  | |
 |  | EUROPEAN UNION | (Brussels a + Luxembourg j + Strasbourg l) |  | President Romano Prodi | | |
 |  | FRANCE | (Paris) |  | President Jacques Chirac | | |
 |  | INDONESIA | (Jakarta a + Bogor r + Chipanas r + Yogyakarta r + Tampaksiring r) |  | President Abdurrahman Wahid Gus Dur | | |
 |  | INDIA | (New Delhi a + Simla s + Bolarum w) |  | President Kocheril Raman Narayanan | | |
 |  | ITALY | (Rome a) |  | President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi | | |
 |  | JAPAN | (Tokyo) |  | Emperor Akihito | | |
 |  | SOUTH KOREA | (Seoul a) |  | President Kim Dae-Jung | | |
 |  | MEXICO | (Mexico City) |  | President Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Leon | | |
 |  | RUSSIA | (Moscow) |  | President Vladimir Putin | | |
 |  | SAUDI ARABIA | (Riyadh) |  | King Fahd | | |
 |  | TURKEY | (Ankara a) |  | President Ahmet Necdet Sezer | | |
 |  | UNITED KINGDOM | (London a + Westminster lr + Edinburgh s + Windsor r) | | Queen Elizabeth II | | |
 |  | AMERICA | (Washington-District of Columbia) |  | President Bill Clinton | | |
 |  | SOUTH AFRICA | (Pretoria ae + Cape Town l + Bloemfontein j + Johannesburg d) |  | President Thabo Mbeki |  | |
