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Eaton Vance Short Duration Diversified Income Fund Annual Meeting ofShareholders

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^{Published in Business and Finance on Monday, November 17th 2008 at 14:43 GMT by Market Wire}  

BOSTON--([ BUSINESS WIRE ])--At a meeting held today, the Board of Trustees of Eaton Vance Short Duration Diversified Income Fund (the "Fund") (NYSE: EVG), a closed-end investment company, voted to hold the Annual Meeting of Shareholders of the Fund on Friday, February 27, 2009 at 2:30 P.M. EST. The meeting will be held at the principal office of the Fund, The Eaton Vance Building, 255 State Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02109. Proxy materials will be mailed on or about December 26, 2008 to shareholders of record on December 12, 2008. Shareholders will be asked to vote on the election of three Class I Trustees and one Class III Trustee of the Fund.

The Fund is managed by Eaton Vance Management, a subsidiary of Eaton Vance Corp., which is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol EV. Eaton Vance and its affiliates had $144.0 billion in assets under management as of September 30, 2008.