Purchase of Own Securities

Templeton Emerging Markets IT PLC 24 August 2000 Templeton Emerging Markets Investment Trust PLC ----------------------------------------------- Templeton Emerging Markets Investment Trust PLC announces that, on 24 August 2000, it bought for cancellation 700,000 ordinary shares in the market at a price of 122p per ordinary share. There remain 462,418,671 shares in issue.
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