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The Emerging Markets Infrastructure Fund, Inc.
153 East 53rd Street
New York, New York 10022]
Institutional Shareholder Services Changes Recommendations
For Immediate Release
April 26, 1999
Contact: Investor Relations
Credit Suisse Asset Management
1-800-293-1232
New York, New York. The Emerging Markets Infrastructure Fund, Inc.
(NYSE:EMG) announced today that it has been informed that Institutional
Shareholder Services ("ISS") has revised its recommendations relating to the
proposals to be submitted at the Fund's Annual Meeting of Shareholders to be
held on April 27, 1999. ISS is now recommending that shareholders vote for the
two dissident nominees, Phillip Goldstein and Gerald Hellerman, and for two
other proposals being submitted by shareholders, one recommending that the Board
of Directors of the Fund take the necessary steps to afford shareholders of the
Fund an opportunity to realize net asset value, and another to terminate the
advisory contract between the Fund and Credit Suisse Asset Management.
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