Nominee for deputy prime minister Verica Kalanovic will be advised by three businessmen - heads of the companies Metalac, Sintelon and Todor - Dragoljuc Vukadinovic, Nikola Pavlicic and Mirko Todorovic respectively, United Regions of Serbia (UPS) leader Mladjan Dinkic said Tuesday.

Dinkic told a news conference that the current Minister of Telecommunications and Information Society Jasna Matic will be a state secretary with the Ministry of Culture, Information and Information Society.

The nominee for the post of minister of culture, information and information Society is Predrag Markovic.

He added that in talks with representatives of foreign governments he looked into the claims that the EU is against Zoran Stankovic taking over the Ministry of Health, but that no one confirmed the information.

Dinkic expressed belief that the URS team will contribute to the successful work of the government during its final year in office.