Belgrade, where the SPS alliance won two seats. The SPS alliance won the election, and Ivković served in the federal parliament for the term that followed. In May 1998, he supported the removal of Radoje Kontić as Yugoslavian prime minister and the election of Momir Bulatović as his successor. Minister of Science and Technology (1998–2000) The SPS formed a new coalition government with the far-right Serbian Radical Party (Srpska radikalna stranka, SRS) and the Yugoslav Left (Jugoslovenska Levica, JUL) following the 1997 Serbian parliamentary election. On 24 March 1998, Ivković was reassigned as Serbia's minister of science and technology. He was also appointed to the provisional executive council of Kosovo later in 1998; in October of that year, he attended a meeting of the council in Priština. During the 1999 NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, Ivković took part in "human shield" rallies on Belgrade's bridges. At one such rally in April 1999, he was quoted as saying of NATO's actions, "We must oppose with all our forces the new techno-fascism, which is worse than at the time of Adolf Hitler." In the same period, he called for closer co-operation between Serbia's ministries to maximize the country's resources and re-establish production in factories destroyed by NATO bombing. In August 1999, following the conclusion of NATO's bombing campaign, Ivković spoke at an event in Serbia called "Diaspora 99" and claimed that the country had produced its own air-to-air missiles. He received applause when he said, "Some wish to turn us into a colony and they have thus introduced sanctions against us [...] They are trying to bring us to our knees economically and then buy us. We will not let ourselves be turned into a colony and that is why we are counting on you." Later in the year, he took part in a Serbian delegation to China to promote greater scientific and technological co-operation. Ivković led a team of scientists and researchers to Iraq in June 2000 in a bid to improve relations between the two countries. 2000 Yugoslavian elections and fall of Milošević Ivković did not seek re-election to the Chamber of Citizens in the 2000 Yugoslavian general election but instead appeared on the SPS's electoral list for the upper house of the Yugoslavian parliament, the Chamber of Republics. At one point in the campaign, he took part in a radio debate on B92 with Nebojša Čović, who by this time