41 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. ] :
| | AUSTRIA | (Vienna) | | President Thomas Klestil | | |
| | BELGIUM | (Brussels) | | King Albert II | | |
| | BULGARIA | (Sofia) | | President Petar Stoyanov | | |
| | BRUNEI DARUSSALAM | (Bandar Seri Begawan) | | Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah | | |
| | CHINA | (Beijing) | | Jiang Zemin | | |
| | CYPRUS | (Nicosia) | | President Glafkos Kliridis | | |
| | 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 | | |
| | HUNGARY | (Budapest a) | | President Arpad Goncz | | |
| | INDONESIA | (Jakarta a + Bogor r + Chipanas r + Yogyakarta r + Tampaksiring r) | | President Abdurrahman Wahid Gus Dur | | |
| | IRELAND | (Dublin) | | President Mary McAleese | | |
| | ITALY | (Rome a) | | President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi | | |
| | JAPAN | (Tokyo) | | Emperor Akihito | | |
| | CAMBODIA | (Phnom Penh) | | King Norodom Sihanouk | | |
| | SOUTH KOREA | (Seoul a) | | President Kim Dae-Jung | | |
| | LAOS | (Vientiane) | | Khamtai Siphandon | | |
| | LITHUANIA | (Vilnius) | | President Valdas Adamkus | | |
| | LUXEMBOURG | (Luxembourg a) | | Grand Duke Jean | | |
| | LATVIA | (Riga) | | President Vaira Vike-Freiberga | | |
| | MYANMAR | (Yangon a) | | Than Shwe | | |
| | MALTA | (Valletta a + Attard r + Siggiewi s) | | President Guido de Marco | | |
| | MALAYSIA | (Kuala Lumpur) | | Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah al-Haj | | |
| | NETHERLANDS | (Amsterdam a + The Hague jlr + Wassenaar r) | | Queen Beatrix | | |
| | PHILIPPINES | (Manila acr + Quezon City b + Pasay City b) | | President Joseph Estrada | | |
| | POLAND | (Warsaw a) | | President Alexander Kwasniewski | | |
| | PORTUGAL | (Lisbon) | | President Jorge Sampaio | | |
| | ROMANIA | (Bucharest) | | President Emil Constantinescu | | |
| | 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 | | |
| | THAILAND | (Bangkok) | | King Rama IX Bhumibol Adulyadej | | |
| | UNITED KINGDOM | (London a + Westminster lr + Edinburgh s + Windsor r) | | Queen Elizabeth II | | |
| | VIETNAM | (Hanoi) | | Le Kha Phieu | | |