US President Barack Obama will welcome his Brazilian counterpart Dilma Rousseff to the White House on April 9 for talks on the "growing partnership" between the two nations, his office said Tuesday.

The meetings, which come a little more than a year since Obama visited Brazil, will allow the two leaders to "continue efforts to grow commercial, economic, education and innovation ties," the White House said in a statement.

Obama "looks forward to discussing cooperation on a host of other bilateral, regional, and multilateral issues" ahead of the Summit of the Americas in Colombia in April, and the G20 summit in Mexico in June.

The US president spent two days in Brazil in March 2011 at the start of a tour of Latin America. During that trip, he described the emerging powerhouse Brazil as a model of economic and democratic transformation.

Last year, Obama and Rousseff signed a series of agreements that include reducing trade barriers and broadening Brazilian oil and gas production in the Gulf of Mexico.

Brazil, host of the 2014 football World Cup and 2016 Olympics, has made an amazing economic leap in recent years, lifting millions from poverty and reaching new global influence.

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