PUTRAJAYA: Works Minister Datuk Mohd Zin Mohamad will issue a statement on the government?s reported declassification of toll concession agreements, Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Abdul Razak said yesterday.

"I think I will ask the minister to make a statement to ensure (that it is) technically correct. I will leave it to the works minister to make a statement," Najib, who is also finance minister, said when asked to comment on a news report that the government has declassified toll concession agreements.

It also reported that this meant the contents of the contracts, which have for long been speculated as one-sided agreements benefiting toll concessionaires, would no longer be classified as official secrets.

Quoting sources, the newspaper said with the decision, made at recent cabinet meeting, having or having knowledge of the contents of these agreements no longer constituted an offence under the official Secrets Act.