Purchase of Own Securities

Templeton Emerging Markets IT PLC
7 March 2002


Templeton Emerging Markets Investment Trust PLC announces that, on 6 March 2002,
it bought for cancellation 150,000 ordinary shares in the market at a price
120.5p per ordinary share. There remain 455,587,419 shares in issue.

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