21 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. ] :
 |  | UNITED ARAB EMIRATES | (Abu Dhabi ar + Al Karama f) |  | President Sheikh Zayed II bin Sultan Al Nahyan |  | |
 |  | BAHRAIN | (Manamah) |  | Emir Sheikh Isa II bin Salman Al Khalifah | | |
 |  | JIBUTI | (Jibuti) |  | President Hassan Gouled Aptidon |  | |
 |  | ALGERIA | (Algiers a + El Biar d + El Mouradia r) |  | President Chadli Bendjedid | | |
 |  | IRAQ | (Baghdad) |  | President Saddam Hussein al-Tikriti | | |
 |  | JORDAN | (Amman) |  | King Hussein I | | |
 |  | KUWAIT | (Kuwait City) |  | Emir Sheikh Jabir III Al Ahmad Al Jabir Al Sabah | | |
 |  | LEBANON | (Beirut-East a + Baabda r) |  | President Amin Gemayel | | |
 |  | LIBYA | (Tripoli a) |  | Guide Muammar Gaddafi | | |
 |  | MOROCCO | (Rabat a) |  | King Hassan II | | |
 |  | MAURITANIA | (Nouakchott) |  | Colonel Mohamed Khouna Ould Haidallah | | |
 |  | OMAN | (Muscat) |  | Sultan Qaboos bin Said | | |
 |  | PALESTINE | (Tunis x) |  | Yasser Arafat | | |
 |  | QATAR | (Doha) |  | Emir Sheikh Khalifah bin Hamad Al Thani | | |
 |  | SAUDI ARABIA | (Riyadh) |  | King Fahd | | |
 |  | SUDAN | (Khartoum) |  | President Gaafar Muhammad Numairy | | |
 |  | SOMALIA | (Mogadishu) |  | President Muhammad Siad Barre | | |
 |  | SYRIA | (Damascus) |  | President Hafez Al-Assad | | |
 |  | TUNISIA | (Tunis) |  | President Habib Bourguiba | | |
 |  | SOUTH YEMEN | (Aden) |  | Ali Nasir Muhammad Husani | | |
 |  | NORTH YEMEN | (Sanaa) |  | President Ali Abdullah Saleh | | |
