The anniversary summit of the SCO Council of Heads of State of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) chaired by Tajik President Emomali Rahmon was held in Dushanbe on September 17, 2020. Attended by the presidents of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Uzbekistan as member states, and Belarus, Iran as SCO observer states, the summit was remotely joined by heads of member states China, India, and Russia and Mongolia as an observer. The President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov participated in the summit as an invited guest.