Citigroup Closed-End Funds Issue Statement

Business Wire, June 22, 2005

NEW YORK -- The following Citigroup closed-end funds - Salomon Brothers Capital and Income Fund Inc., Salomon Brothers Emerging Markets Debt Fund Inc., Salomon Brothers Emerging Markets Floating Rate Fund Inc., Salomon Brothers Emerging Markets Income Fund Inc., Salomon Brothers Emerging Markets Income Fund II Inc., Salomon Brothers Global High Income Fund Inc., Salomon Brothers Global Partners Income Fund Inc., Salomon Brothers Inflation Management Fund Inc., Salomon Brothers Municipal Partners Fund Inc., Salomon Brothers Municipal Partners Fund II Inc., The Salomon Brothers Fund Inc, Salomon Brothers High Income Fund Inc, Salomon Brothers High Income Fund II Inc, Salomon Brothers Variable Rate Strategic Fund Inc., Salomon Brothers 2008 Worldwide Dollar Government Term Trust Inc. and Salomon Brothers Worldwide Income Fund Inc. - today issued the following statement:

The Funds today reported that PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP has resigned as the independent registered public accounting firm for the Funds. The resignation is effective immediately for Salomon Brothers Capital and Income Fund Inc., Salomon Brothers Emerging Markets Debt Fund Inc., Salomon Brothers Emerging Markets Floating Rate Fund Inc., Salomon Brothers Emerging Markets Income Fund Inc., Salomon Brothers Global Partners Income Fund Inc., Salomon Brothers Inflation Management Fund Inc., Salomon Brothers Municipal Partners Fund Inc., The Salomon Brothers Fund Inc, Salomon Brothers High Income Fund Inc, Salomon Brothers Variable Rate Strategic Fund Inc., Salomon Brothers 2008 Worldwide Dollar Government Term Trust Inc. and Salomon Brothers Worldwide Income Fund Inc. and upon completion of the audit for the 2005 fiscal years for Salomon Brothers Emerging Markets Income Fund II Inc., Salomon Brothers High Income Fund II Inc, Salomon Brothers Global High Income Fund Inc and Salomon Brothers Municipal Partners Fund II Inc.

The Funds' Audit Committees approved engaging KPMG LLP as the Funds' new independent registered public accounting firm. A majority of each Fund's Board of Directors, including a majority of the independent Directors, approved the appointment of KPMG LLP, subject to the right, of each Fund, by a majority vote of the shareholders at any meeting called for that purpose, to terminate the appointment without penalty.

The reports of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP on the Funds' financial statements for each of the last two fiscal years contained no adverse opinion or disclaimer of opinion and were not qualified or modified as to uncertainty, audit scope or accounting principles. There have been no disagreements with PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP during the Funds' two most recent fiscal years and any subsequent interim period on any matter of accounting principles or practices, financial statement disclosure or auditing scope or procedure which, if not resolved to the satisfaction of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, would have caused them to make reference thereto in their reports on the financial statements for such years.

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