France}} Jacques Chirac
| President of France
| 1 February 1996
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|  Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle
| Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle
| 27 February 1997
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|  Kim Dae-jung
| President of South Korea
| 10 June 1998
|-
|  Emil Constantinescu
| President of Romania
| 15 July 1998