Loyalist representatives are to urge an end to the violence at Belfast's sectarian flashpoints, it emerged today.
Members of the Loyalist Commission, an umbrella group representing paramilitaries, church leaders and politicians, are also to call on nationalist leaders to use their influence to halt the trouble.
As police arrested three men in connection with some of disturbances which have hit several parts of the city, sources close to the commission confirmed an initiative is going to be launched in the next 24 hours.
One said: "Loyalists are going to agree to no first strikes at interfaces across Belfast."
Ulster Unionists, Protestant church leaders and representatives of the Ulster Defence Association and the Ulster Volunteer Force are among those who sit on the commission.
The commission was set up last year in a bid to ease tensions among feuding loyalist groupings.
But it has also been involved in talks to end violence linked to a blockade of the Holy Cross Catholic primary school in north Belfast.
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