Purchase of Own Securities

Foreign & Col. Pacific Inv Tst PLC
3 February 2000


FOREIGN & COLONIAL PACIFIC INVESTMENT TRUST PLC

Please note that Foreign & Colonial Pacific Investment Trust PLC today purchased
for cancellation 540,000 ordinary shares in the market at a price of 197.5p per
share.

Following this purchase, the total number of ordinary shares in issue stands at
228,165,920.