Company: EMD
Filing Date: 2025-12-19
Form Type: 40-17G
Source: 0001655589-25-000267
Chunk: 47

Company: WESTERN ASSET EMERGING MARKETS DEBT FUND INC.
Filing Date: 2025-12-19
Form: 40-17G
Chunk 47
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to the securities or funds of the Companies, either directly or through authority
to draw

upon such funds of, or to direct generally,
the disposition of such securities, unless the

officer
or employee has such access solely through his position as an officer or employee

of a bank (each, a “covered person”);

WHEREAS,Rule 17g-1 under the 1940 Act (“Rule 17g-1”) specifies that the bond

may be in the form of (i) an individual bond for each covered person, or a schedule
or

blanket bond covering such persons, (ii)
a blanket bond which names the Companies as the

only
insured (a “single insured bond”), or (iii) a bond which names the Companies and one

or more other parties as insureds (a “joint insured bond”), as permitted by
Rule 17g-1;

WHEREAS,Rule 17g-1 requires that a majority of the Independents approve

periodically (but not less than once every 12 months) the reasonableness of the
form and

amount of the bond, with due consideration
to all relevant factors, including, but not limited

to, the value of the aggregate assets of the Companies to which any covered person
may

have access, the type and terms of the
arrangements made for the custody and safekeeping

of
such assets, and the nature of securities and other investments to be held by the

Companies;

WHEREAS,under Rule 17g-l, each Company is required to make certain filings

with the Securities and Exchange Commission
(the “SEC”) and give certain notices to each

member
of the applicable Board in connection with the bond, and designate an officer who

shall make such filings and give such notices;

WHEREAS,each Board, including all the Independents, has considered the

expected aggregate value of the securities
and funds of the Companies to which officers or

employees
of the applicable Company may have access (either directly or through authority

to draw upon such funds or to direct generally the disposition of such securities),
the type

and terms of the arrangements made for
the custody of such securities and funds, the nature

of securities and other investments to be held by the Companies, the accounting
procedures

and controls of the Companies, the nature
and method of conducting the operations of each

Company,
and the requirements of Section 17(g) of the 1940