United States Department of Defense Press Advisory On the web: Media contact: +1 (703) 697-5131 Public contact: http://www.dod.mil/faq/comment.html or +1 (703) 428-0711

Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz will host an honor cordon to welcome President Eduard Shevardnadze, of Georgia, to the Pentagon, today, Oct. 5, 2001, at 3 p.m. EDT.

The cordon will be held on the steps of the Pentagon River Entrance.

Wolfowitz and Shevardnadze will conduct a brief media availability following their meeting.

Media must be at the River Entrance no later than 2:40 p.m. EDT. Media interested in audiovisual coverage of these events may contact Terry Mitchell at (703) 695-0169.

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