Unai Emery hopes Mkhitaryan can travel to Baku for Europa League match

Arsenal manager Unai Emery is hoping midfielder Henrikh Mkhitaryan will travel to Baku for an upcoming Europa League match despite the country's ongoing conflict with Armenia. Mkhitaryan's availability for the game is in doubt because of the dispute between Azerbaijan and Armenia over over the Nagorno-Karabakh region. "I would like that he can [travel] with us," Emery said. "And this problem, if we can together arrange [a solution], it's better. But I have not yet spoken with him."

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