A Sinn Féin delegation is to meet Northern Ireland Office minister Mr Des Browne today to discuss the violence at interface areas in Belfast.
Party chairman Mr Mitchel McLaughlin and east Belfast councillor Mr Joe O'Donnell will meet Mr Browne after a week of sectarian rioting that saw 19 police officers injured and both sides of the peaceline devastated.
Stormont enterprise minister Sir Reg Empey had earlier invited security minister Ms Jane Kennedy to visit east Belfast. He warned lives would be lost unless the violence ends.
Sir Reg claimed yesterday that CCTV cameras should be installed along the peaceline in east Belfast to prevent violence and accused Sinn Féin of orchestrating attacks on the loyalist Cluan Place as part of a campaign against the force.
Sinn Féin rejected the claim. Mr O'Donnell said police did nothing to protect workmen carrying out repairs to Catholic homes in Clandeboye after they came under attack from loyalist stone-throwers yesterday.
Catholic residents in the Short Strand had earlier protested at the headquarters of the Policing Board over what they claimed was the failure of police to protect their homes.
They brought bags of metal nuts, bolts and fireworks which they claimed were thrown by loyalists over the peaceline.
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