22 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. ] :
 |  | EMIRATES | (Abu Dhabi ar) |  | President Sheikh Zayed II bin Sultan Al Nahyan |  | |
 |  | BAHRAIN | (Manamah a + Sakhir r) |  | King Sheikh Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifah |  | |
 |  | JIBUTI | (Jibuti) |  | President Ismail Omar Guelleh |  | |
 |  | ALGERIA | (Algiers a + El Biar d + El Mouradia r) |  | President Abdelaziz Bouteflika |  | |
 |  | EGYPT | (Cairo a + Alexandria r) |  | President Hosni Mubarak |  | |
 |  | IRAQ | (Baghdad a + Camp Victory m) |  | President George Walker Bush |  | |
 |  | JORDAN | (Amman) |  | King Abdullah II |  | |
 |  | COMOROS | (Moroni a) |  | President Azali Assoumani |  | |
 |  | KUWAIT | (Kuwait City a + Bayan lr) |  | Emir Sheikh Jabir III Al Ahmad Al Jabir Al Sabah |  | |
 |  | LEBANON | (Beirut a + Yarze m + Hadeth d) |  | President Emile Lahoud |  | |
 |  | LIBYA | (Tripoli a) |  | Guide Muammar Gaddafi |  | |
 |  | MOROCCO | (Rabat a) |  | King Muhammad VI |  | |
 |  | MAURITANIA | (Nouakchott) |  | President Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya |  | |
 |  | OMAN | (Muscat) |  | Sultan Qaboos bin Said |  | |
 |  | PALESTINE | (Ramallah qr + Gaza br + (East Jerusalem)) |  | President Yasser Arafat |  | |
 |  | QATAR | (Doha) |  | Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifah Al Thani |  | |
 |  | SAUDI ARABIA | (Riyadh a + Mecca y) |  | King Fahd |  | |
 |  | SUDAN | (Khartoum a) |  | President Omar Al-Bashir |  | |
 |  | SOMALIA | (Mogadishu) |  | President Abdiqasim Salad Hassan |  | |
 |  | SYRIA | (Damascus) |  | President Bashar Al-Assad |  | |
 |  | TUNISIA | (Tunis) |  | President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali |  | |
 |  | YEMEN | (Sanaa a) |  | President Ali Abdullah Saleh |  | |