Brazil's newly sworn-in president Dilma Rousseff will visit Argentina and Uruguay for her first official international trip, according to International Affairs Secretary Marco Aurelio Garc?a.

Garc?a added that the preliminary agenda for the first trips also includes the United States and China, according to the Brazilian state news agency.

Finally, he said that Rousseff, whose father was born in Bulgaria, also wishes to visit Per? and Bulgaria, adding that the dates for her first international trips are being coordinated by Foreign Minister Antonio Patriota.

During her meeting with Bulgaria's Prime Minister Boyko Borisov on Thursday, two days before her official inauguration, Dilma Rousseff has reportedly confirmed she will keep her promise to visit her father's homeland Bulgaria in the summer of 2011.

Borisov's meeting with Dilma Rousseff was first scheduled for January 1, but the Brazilian new president reportedly insisted that she meet Borisov on Thursday, making him one of the few world leaders who had the chance to confer with her in one week.

Brazilian observers commented that this is a great honor for the Bulgarian delegation, a special gesture by Dilma Rousseff to show respect for the homeland of her father.

The Bulgarian prime minister presented Dilma Rousseff with gifts from Bulgaria and a special message from the European Union President Herman van Rompuy.

Dilma Rousseff won a "landslide" Bulgarian vote even before being elected president of Brazil - the country was gripped by a "Dilma fever" because of her Bulgarian roots.

Bulgarian media continue to shower a round-the-clock attention on Ms Rousseff, highlighting primarily the fact that she is a Bulgarian descendent.

The citizens of Gabrovo, a hard-luck but endearing Bulgarian town at the foot of the central Balkans, where the father of Brazil newly elected president Dilma Rousseff was born, are more than happy to celebrate their newfound notoriety across the Atlantic.

Dilma Rousseff's father, Peter Rousev, was born in 1900 in the town of Gabrovo, but left Bulgaria for both economic and political reasons (he was a communist), looking for a better job and a brighter future. He eventually married a Brazilian schoolteacher, the president-elect's mother, and became a relatively wealthy man.

A century later the small town in central Bulgaria has been caught up in the excitement of the presidential victory in far-away Brazil and hopes Dilma Rousseff will visit Gabrovo as President of one of the world's greatest nations and recover her roots.

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