KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR: With more than 1,000 police and soldiers standing by, Protestant Orangemen staged their annual march in Northern Ireland. It's seen as a provocation by Catholics living nearby, and the potential for violence is always present. With a look at the situation as it's unfolding, we go to CNN's Nic Robertson in Drumcree, Northern Ireland. Hi, Nic.</s>NIC ROBERTSON, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Kyra, the Orangemen have had their parade here now. They marched for three miles from Portadown to the church behind me. They had a service there, and after that service, they marched down to that 20-foot-high steel barricade. Down there, they tried to deliver a letter to the police chief, but for the first time in two years, the police refused to take that letter of protest from the Orangemen. Orange leaders then addressed the gathered crowd. They called on them to continue in their protests. They called on them to call for the resignation of the Parades Commission, that's the organization the British government set up here to reroute contentious marches like this one. They've called on their own politicians to disrupt the government both in Northern Ireland and in Britain. And they did call for further protests, they said. They said that they didn't want violence, the same type of violence that was seen in the previous few days in Northern Ireland. But they did call for continued protest and thanked the people of Northern Ireland who'd come out during the last week in support of their cause -- Kyra.</s>PHILLIPS: All right, Nic Robertson live from Northern Ireland, thank you.
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