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The longest-serving defense minister in the entire Commonwealth of Independent States , Abiyev has been repeatedly subjected to criticism for his imputed tolerance of endemic corruption within the military . It makes it absolutely clear , that the EU is a voluntary co-operation of independent states , and it says , that the EU only possesses the authority , which the member states have conferred to it . The notion that the Ossetian and Abkhazian separatists in Georgia will abandon their quest for independent states , or that Armenia will give up its claim to Nagorno-Karabakh , because the United States refuses to countenance the breakup of Bosnia is the worst sort of naivete . The WRP has repeatedly declared its support for this development , hailing the formation of independent states of Slovenia , Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina as victories for " national liberation movements " and part of the " great revolutions which swept Europe in the period 1989-91 .