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The secretary hosts an enhanced honor cordon and meeting welcoming Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani to the Pentagon at 2:30 p.m. EDT on the steps of the River Entrance. All journalists covering the arrival ceremony must obtain a wristband from security screening. Journalists without a Pentagon access badge must go through security screening at the base of the River Entrance Pedestrian Bridge, and will be escorted to the arrival ceremony from there. Security screening will begin at approximately 1:30 p.m. EDT; have proof of affiliation and two forms of photo identification. Security screening at this location will close promptly at 2 p.m. EDT. Journalists with a Pentagon access badge, and whom have entered the building prior to 1:30 p.m. EDT, may go through security screening at the River Entrance to obtain their wristband; please obtain your wristband at the River Entrance by 2 p.m. EDT. All journalists covering the ceremony, including those with a Pentagon access badge, must be in place no later than 2:15 p.m. EDT. Once security screening has been initiated at the base of the bridge, all journalists entering the building via the bridge for any reason, including those with a Pentagon facility access card not covering the arrival ceremony, must undergo security screening. Please call 703-697-5131 with any questions.  

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Department of Defense Arctic & Oceans Policy Director Esther McClure joins a "Defense and Security in the High North" panel discussion at 10:30 a.m. EDT at the Atlantic Council's "Looking North" conference on security in the Arctic at the Royal Norwegian Embassy, Washington, D.C.  

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