Company: EMD
Filing Date: 2025-09-16
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001193125-25-204754
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Company: WESTERN ASSET EMERGING MARKETS DEBT FUND INC.
Filing Date: 2025-09-16
Form: DEF 14A
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 independent registered public accountants, the affirmative vote of a majority of the votes cast by the stockholders of the Fund, at a meeting at which a quorum is present, will decide the ratification of PwC as the independent registered
public accountants. For purposes of the ratification of PwC as the independent registered public accountants, abstentions and broker non-votes, if any, will be counted as represented at the meeting but will
not be considered votes cast. As such, abstentions and broker non-votes will have no effect on the outcome of the ratification proposal.

The Board of Directors, including the Directors who are not “interested” persons unanimously recommends that stockholders of the Fund vote “FOR” each of the nominees for Director and “FOR” the ratification of the selection of PwC as the independent registered public accountants.

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5% Beneficial Ownership At August 29, 2025, to the knowledge of management, the registered stockholders who owned of record or owned beneficially more than 5% of the Fund’s capital stock outstanding are noted in the table below. As of the close of business on August 29, 2025, Cede & Co., a nominee for participants in the Depository Trust Company, held of record 57,557,260 shares of Common Stock, equal to approximately 99% of the Fund’s outstanding shares of Common Stock, including the shares shown below.

| Number of 
 Shares    |     | Percent  |     | Name                                     |     | Address                          |
| 5,440,238 |     | 9.31%(1) |     | First Trust Advisors L.P. and affiliates |     | 120 East Liberty Drive Suite 400 
 Wheaton, IL 60187                |
| 3,103,090 |     | 5.3%(2)  |     | Morgan Stanley and affiliates            |     | 1585 Broadway New York, NY 10018 |
| 5,142,350 |     | 8.70%(3) |     | Parametric Portfolio Associates LLC      |     | 800 Fifth Avenue Suite 2800      
 Seattle, WA 98104                |

| (1) | Based upon information disclosed in Schedule 13G/A filed jointly with the SEC on January 17, 2024. |

| (2) | Based upon information disclosed in Schedule 13G/A filed jointly with the SEC on February 3, 202