President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner to depart tomorrow afternoon for Seoul, the South Korean capital, where on Thursday and next Friday will attend the Summit of Heads of State of the Group of 20 (G-20).

This is the first overseas trip by the President after the death of former President Nestor Kirchner.

Cristina official activity will begin at midnight on Wednesday, hours Argentina (noon on Thursday in Korea due to the 12-hour difference between the two countries).

The head of state, which will be accompanied by Foreign Minister Héctor Timerman and Minister of Economy, Amado Boudou, will chair and speak at the roundtable on finance in the second session of the Business Summit of the G-20.

At midnight on Thursday in Argentina, noon Friday in Korea, held the official photo of the summit and then a lunch meeting of all Heads of State at the G-20.

Then the President will attend the second plenary session of the Summit, which will take about 45 minutes, in which the leaders end up polishing the final document of the Summit.

The last activity of Cristina in Seoul will be the gala dinner to be attended by the top leaders of member countries of the G-20 and CEOs of multinational corporations.

From there the President will address the Incheon International Airport to start back to Buenos Aires, with his entourage.

While the so-called "war of currencies" promises to draw the attention of the Summit, the official agenda also includes the need to establish mechanisms for macroeconomic coordination, policy development and implementation of effective reform of the international financial system.

Cristina, to confirm their participation at the Summit a few weeks ago, said that during the meeting "will aim for a bit of cooperation, because what we're seeing now is a great war of currencies, competitiveness, ultimately, and see who puts their products better and how you move the crisis "to third countries.

"We have to be quiet every explaining what we understand as the global policy and the regulation of global capital movements, credit rating agencies and countries with bank secrecy and that we can that this huge mass of money, return to the real economy, "said the head of state.

In the middle of last month, the Finance Ministers and Finance and central bank governors of the G-20 agreed, during a preparatory meeting held in Gyeongju, South Korea agreed to give China, Brazil and India, greater decision-making within the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

According to the new membership, China will become the third largest member of the Fund, ahead of Germany, France and Italy, while India is located in the eighth and tenth place Brazil in the hierarchy.

As regards the "war of currencies", the finance ministers merely make explicit their commitment to "move towards an exchange rate determined by the market to reflect underlying economic fundamentals and reject the competitive devaluations of currencies ".

The G-20 consists of Germany, Saudi Arabia, Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Korea, USA, Spain (the guest), France, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Mexico, UK, Russia, South Africa, Turkey and the European Union as a bloc.

The G-20 emerged in 1999 as a forum for cooperation and consultation between the more developed countries and in developing nations for issues related to the international financial system and other issues.