Morgan Stanley Municipal Closed-End Funds Announce At Par Redemptions of Preferred Shares

October 2, 2009 4:30 PM EDT

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- The Morgan Stanley Municipal Closed-End Funds (the "Funds") listed below hereby announce the dates for the partial redemptions of their respective auction rate preferred shares (ARPS). The announced partial redemptions total $152.05 million and represent approximately 20.66 percent of the total remaining ARPS issued by the Funds, bringing the total announced redemptions to 39.8 percent of the total originally issued ARPS.

This redemption announcement follows previous announcements in which Morgan Stanley provided information regarding the refinancing of a portion of the Funds' ARPS with the use of tender option bonds (TOBs).

The amount of ARPS being redeemed at this time varies by Fund and ranges between 10 percent and 31 percent of the ARPS outstanding for each Fund based on a number of factors, including the interests of the common shareholders, the availability of high quality municipal bonds at certain yield levels to be transferred to the trust structure and the ability to secure liquidity providers for the put feature.

With respect to this partial redemption, The Depository Trust Company (DTC), the securities' holder of record, will determine how the partial series redemptions will be allocated among each participant broker-dealer account. Each participant broker-dealer, as nominee for underlying beneficial owners (street name shareholders), in turn will determine how redeemed shares are to be allocated among its underlying beneficial owners. The procedures used by various broker-dealers to allocate redeemed shares among beneficial owners may differ from each other as well as from the procedures used by DTC.

Redemption Schedule

MS California Insured Municipal Income Trust (NYSE: IIC)

Series  CUSIP Number  # of Shares  Amount      Redemption Date
                      Redeemed     Redeemed

1       617-45P-601   38           $1,900,000  October 19, 2009

2       617-45P-700   77           $3,850,000  October 19, 2009

3       617-45P-809   96           $4,800,000  October 19, 2009

4       617-45P-882   38           $1,900,000  October 19, 2009

MS California Quality Municipal Securities (NYSE: IQC)

Series  CUSIP Number  # of Shares  Amount      Redemption Date
                      Redeemed     Redeemed

1       617-45P-627   58           $2,900,000  October 20, 2009

2       617-45P-619   53           $2,650,000  October 22, 2009

3       617-45P-593   135          $6,750,000  October 20, 2009

MS Insured Municipal Bond Trust (NYSE: IMC)

Series  CUSIP Number  # of Shares  Amount      Redemption Date
                      Redeemed     Redeemed

        617-45P-353   102          $5,100,000  October 22, 2009

MS Insured Municipal Income Trust (NYSE: IIM)

Series  CUSIP Number  # of Shares  Amount      Redemption Date
                      Redeemed     Redeemed

1       617-45P-783   69           $3,450,000  October 19, 2009

2       617-45P-775   156          $7,800,000  October 19, 2009

3       617-45P-767   173          $8,650,000  October 19, 2009

4       617-45P-759   69           $3,450,000  October 19, 2009

5       617-45P-742   69           $3,450,000  October 19, 2009

MS Insured Municipal Trust (NYSE: IMT)

Series  CUSIP Number  # of Shares  Amount       Redemption Date
                      Redeemed     Redeemed

TU      617-45P-841   177          $8,850,000   October 21, 2009

TH      617-45P-858   400          $20,000,000  October 23, 2009

MS Municipal Premium Income Trust (NYSE: PIA)

Series  CUSIP Number  # of Shares  Amount      Redemption Date
                      Redeemed     Redeemed

A       617-45P-411   18           $1,800,000  October 21, 2009

B       617-45P-395   18           $1,800,000  October 21, 2009

C       617-45P-387   18           $1,800,000  October 21, 2009

D       617-45P-379   18           $1,800,000  October 21, 2009

E       617-45P-361   18           $1,800,000  October 21, 2009

MS New York Quality Municipal Securities (NYSE: IQN)

Series  CUSIP Number  # of Shares  Amount      Redemption Date
                      Redeemed     Redeemed

1       617-45P-510   50           $2,500,000  October 20, 2009

2       617-45P-494   42           $2,100,000  October 23, 2009

MS Quality Municipal Income Trust (NYSE: IQI)

Series  CUSIP Number  # of Shares  Amount      Redemption Date
                      Redeemed     Redeemed

1       617-45P-726   91           $4,550,000  October 21, 2009

2       617-45P-718   32           $1,600,000  October 22, 2009

3       617-45P-692   91           $4,550,000  October 22, 2009

4       617-45P-684   91           $4,550,000  October 22, 2009

5       617-45P-676   32           $1,600,000  October 23, 2009

MS Quality Municipal Investment Trust (NYSE: IQT)

Series  CUSIP Number  # of Shares  Amount       Redemption Date
                      Redeemed     Redeemed

A       617-45P-650   249          $12,450,000  October 21, 2009

B       617-45P-643   124          $6,200,000   October 23, 2009

MS Quality Municipal Securities (NYSE: IQM)

Series  CUSIP Number  # of Shares  Amount      Redemption Date
                      Redeemed     Redeemed

1       617-45P-577   61           $3,050,000  October 20, 2009

2       617-45P-569   54           $2,700,000  October 21, 2009

3       617-45P-551   54           $2,700,000  October 22, 2009

4       617-45P-544   108          $5,400,000  October 20, 2009

5       617-45P-536   72           $3,600,000  October 20, 2009

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    Source: Morgan Stanley

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