Purchase of Own Securities

Templeton Emerging Markets IT PLC 30 August 2000 Templeton Emerging Markets Investment Trust PLC Templeton Emerging Markets Investment Trust PLC announces that, on 29 August 2000, it bought for cancellation 750,000 ordinary shares in the market at a price of 122.75p per ordinary share. There remain 461,128,671 shares in issue.
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