Armenian Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan’s visit to the U.S. pursued political goals, besides the economic ones, Aravot daily reported.

“Prime Minister Sargsyan held a number of meetings in the U.S. with an aim to hail the policy President Serzh Sargsya pursued in the past five years. Besides briefing the U.S. officials on the incumbent president’s past activates, he also presented the programs planned in the near future, with positive political messages issued in response,” the paper says.