Purchase of Own Securities

Templeton Emerging Markets IT PLC 5 October 2000 Templeton Emerging Markets Investment Trust PLC ----------------------------------------------- Templeton Emerging Markets Investment Trust PLC announces that, on 5 October 2000, it bought for cancellation 160,000 ordinary shares in the market at a price of 115.5p per ordinary share. There remain 457,593,671 shares in issue.
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