The power-sharing government in Northern Ireland set aside factional clashes on Thursday in a bid to bring peace to the aftermath of frustration among British pro-union unions over post-Brexit barriers that have helped spark more serious violence in the region over the years.
Despite the appeals, the violence continued in the Irish nationalist areas on Thursday night where police responded to a petrol bomb and a stone-throwing assault rifle. The White House joined the British and Irish governments in promoting peace.
Hundreds of young people in Britain's capital, Belfast, set fire to a hijacked bus and pelted police with stones on Wednesday in the streets reviving memories of decades of sectarian and political war that claimed some 3,600 lives ahead of the 1998 peace agreement.
A church of violence has injured 55 police officers and seen young boys aged 13 and 14 arrested on violent charges.
"We are deeply concerned about the incidents we have all witnessed on our streets," said a coalition forced by anti-Irish Catholic activists and British Protestants.
"While our political situation is very different in many respects, we are all united in supporting the rule of law and order and we all say our support for policing," the statement said.
British and Irish ministers have held talks, and the White House press secretary said Biden's management was concerned. The U.S. Department of State He warned that the Good Friday Agreement, a 1998 peace agreement, should not be a "victim" of Brexit.
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