Loyalists: Orange Order should talk to nationalists 4 July 2013 Last updated at 23:49 Loyalist residents in north Belfast have asked the Orange Order to engage directly with a nationalist residents' group in Ardoyne in north Belfast. The move comes ahead of a Twelfth of July parade next week. In a statement, the Twaddell and Woodvale Residents' Association called on three local Orange lodges to meet the Crumlin and Ardoyne Residents' Association. They said they were doing so having watched ``peaceful parades`` recently. The Twaddell and Woodvale Residents' Association said they were calling for engagement with nationalist residents group to build on the ``positive environment``. The statement only made reference to discussions with the Crumlin and Ardoyne Residents' Association. Orange response It is one of two residents' groups which opposed parades at Ardoyne in the past. There was no mention of the second group, the Greater Ardoyne Residents' Collective. There was no immediate response from the Orange Order though it is thought the organisation may respond on Friday. There has been serious violence at Ardoyne in previous years after opposition to the Twelfth feeder parade in the area. Nationalists have always called for face-to-face talks in an attempt to come to a local agreement. Neither CARA nor the GARC residents' group could be contacted for comment last night. The Loyalist residents' initiative was welcomed by Rev Heather Morris, president of the Methodist Church in Ireland. "I would, with the residents' association, encourage the three local Orange lodges to engage directly with the Crumlin and Ardoyne Residents' Association ahead of the Twelfth of July parades," Rev Morris said. Such dialogue if entered into mutually, may indeed prevent a repetition of the yearly riotous situation which surrounds this area of North Belfast. Such dialogue could pave the way for a trouble free day.