IBJ NOMURA FINANCIAL PRODUCTS (UK) PLC

At an Extraordinary General Meeting of IBJ Nomura Financial Products (UK) Plc, held at 1-5-1 Otemachi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan, on 28th December 2000, the following Special Resolution was duly passed: “That the Company be wound up as a Members’ voluntary liquidation, and that Colin Graham Bird and Richard Victor Yerburgh Setchim, of PricewaterhouseCoopers, Plumtree Court, London EC4A 4HT, are hereby appointed as its Liquidators and the powers of the Liquidators may be exercised by either independently of the other.” S. Kijima, Chairman