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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 “FOR” Proposal 1 and “FOR” Proposal 2.

Broker-dealer firms holding shares of Common Stock in “street name” for the benefit of their customers and clients will request the
instructions of such customers and clients on how to vote their shares of Common Stock on each Proposal before the Meeting. A signed and dated proxy card or other authorization by a beneficial owner of shares of Common Stock that does not specify
how the beneficial owner’s shares of Common Stock should be voted on a proposal will be deemed an instruction to vote such shares of Common Stock “FOR” Proposal 1 and “FOR” Proposal 2.

If you hold shares of Common Stock through a service agent that has entered into a service agreement with the Fund, the service agent may be the record
holder of your shares of Common Stock. At the Meeting, a service agent will vote shares of Common Stock for which it receives instructions from its customers in accordance with those instructions. A signed and dated proxy card or other authorization
by a stockholder that does not specify how the shares of Common Stock should be voted on a proposal may be deemed to authorize a service agent to vote such shares of Common Stock in favor of Proposal 1 and Proposal 2. Depending on its policies,
applicable law or contractual or other restrictions, a service agent may be permitted to vote shares with respect to which it has not received specific voting instructions from its customers. In those cases, the service agent may, but may not be
required to, vote such shares in the same proportion as those shares for which the service agent has received voting instructions. This practice is commonly referred to as “echo voting.”

If you beneficially own shares of Common Stock that are held in “street name” through a broker-dealer or that are held of record by a service
agent and if you do not give specific voting instructions for your shares of Common Stock, they may not be voted at all or, as described above, the persons named as proxies may vote your shares of Common Stock in a manner that you may not intend.
Therefore, you are strongly encouraged to give your broker-dealer or service agent specific instructions as to how you want your shares of Common Stock to be voted.

The Fund has opted into and is subject to the provisions of the Maryland Control Share Acquisition Act (the “MCSAA”). Generally, the MCSAA
provides that a holder of “control shares” (as defined in the MCSAA) of a Maryland corporation (e.g., the Fund) acquired in a “control