Rousseff hosts Bulgarian prime minister in Brasilia

Thu, 30 Dec 2010

Brasilia - Brazilian president-elect Dilma Rousseff, whose father was born in Bulgaria, received as a guest Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyco Borisov Thursday in Brasilia.

Rousseff is to become the first female president in Brazil's history Saturday, when she succeeds Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.

Her father, poet-businessman Petar Roussev (known as Pedro Rousseff in Brazil), left Bulgaria in 1929. He eventually married a Brazilian schoolteacher, the president-elect's mother, and became a relatively wealthy man.

The Brazilian presidency's foreign affairs adviser Marco Aurelio Garcia said Borisov presented Rousseff with a photograph of a sister of her late father. He also insisted on an invitation made earlier by Bulgarian President Georgi Parvanov for her to visit the land of her forebears.

"She promised to visit the country, probably in the next European summer," Garcia said.

He noted that Borisov also gave Rousseff a message of congratulations from Herman Van Rompuy, president of the European Council.

Rousseff and Borisov met at Itamaraty Palace, the seat of the Brazilian Foreign Ministry, where the Bulgarian visitor also met with Brazil's designated foreign minister under Rousseff, Antonio Patriota.

Source: Earth Times.
Link: http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/news/360217,bulgarian-prime-minister-brasilia.html.