Stević received the 215th position on a coalition list led by the Socialist Party in the 2008 parliamentary election . The list won twenty seats , and , after prolonged negotiations , the Socialist Party joined a new coalition government with the For a European Serbia group led by the Democratic Party . Stević did not receive an assembly mandate but was instead appointed as deputy minister and president of the co-ordination centre at the Ministry for Kosovo and Metohija in July 2008 . In December of the same year , he ceased to be deputy minister and was reassigned as a state secretary in the ministry . Shortly after his initial appointment , he presided over a commemoration ceremony for the victims of the 1999 Staro Gracko massacre ; he was quoted as saying that the murders were " one of the most cruel crimes in a series of crimes committed against Serbs in Kosovo since the deployment of the UN mission and Kosovo Force . " Soon after Stević 's initial appointment , the ministry and co-ordination centre issued a directive calling on Serb community leaders in Kosovo and Metohija to provide the government with accurate information to create a proper social map and so to better facilitate state investments . In September 2008 , he joined with minister Goran Bogdanović to open a new Kosovo Coordination Centre in Gračanica
Staro Gracko massacre
Staro Gracko massacre
Zvonimir Stević