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ITEM 77M: Mergers

Van Kampen High Income Trust II ("Acquiring Fund")

           On July 22, 2005, at a Special Meeting of Shareholders
of Van Kampen High Income Trust (the "Target Fund"), shareholders
of   the   Target  Fund  approved  an  Agreement  and   Plan   of
Reorganization  (the  "Reorganization  Agreement")  between   the
Acquiring   Fund   and  the  Target  Fund,  pursuant   to   which
substantially  all  of  the assets of the Target  Fund  would  be
combined with those of the Acquiring Fund and shareholders of the
Target  Fund  would receive shares of the Acquiring Fund  with  a
value  equal  to the value of their holdings in the  Target  Fund
(the   "Reorganization").   The  Reorganization   Agreement   was
unanimously  approved  by the Board of Trustees  on  February  3,
2005.

          On July 29, 2005, the Reorganization between the Target
Fund  and the Acquiring Fund was completed according to the terms
set forth in the Reorganization Agreement.

VLT

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