ECB's Trichet to leave Australia early for meeting

SYDNEY, Feb 9 (Reuters) - The head of the European Central Bank, Jean-Claude Trichet, is leaving a Sydney meeting of central bankers early to attend an ECB council meeting, an official at the Reserve Bank of Australia said on Tuesday.

It was not known whether the ECB meeting was scheduled or an extraordinary meeting. There had been rumours last week, later denied, that the ECB would hold an extraordinary meeting to discuss sovereign debt problems in some euro zone countries.

Trichet was originally scheduled to be in Sydney through Wednesday for a seminar of central banks in the Euro Area and East Asia-Pacific.

(Reporting by Cecile Lefort, Victoria Thieberger; Editing by Mark Bendeich and Wayne Cole)

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