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BAKU, June 18 (RIA Novosti, Gerai Dadashev) - The second meeting between energy specialists representing Azerbaijan, Russia, and Iran will take place in Baku on June 19-21 in the form of a trilateral commission. Cooperation between the three countries' energy systems will be discussed, according to a press release from Azerenergy. The trilateral commission was formed to discuss the technical issues involved in synchronizing the energy systems of the three countries. Since the commission's first meeting at the end of 2004 in Teheran, all parties have developed specific technical proposals and schemes for the practical implementation of parallel work on the countries' energy networks. At the Baku meeting, these proposals will be discussed in detail and one will be selected. Azerenergy believes that the synchronization of the three countries' energy systems (taking into account the broad geographical range of the energy exchange due to similar work with CIS countries and the Baltic States) will, with precise organization and technical coordination, be able to unite the energy systems of Europe and Asia. An agreement on the unification of the Azerbaijani, Russian, and Iranian energy networks was signed in 2004 in Teheran.