Mr Biden said the US was committed to a strategic partnership with Iraq
The White House said Mr Biden had expressed his concerns in a phone call to Shia Prime Minister Nouri Maliki.
It comes after an arrest warrant was issued for Iraq's Sunni Vice-President, Tariq al-Hashemi, on terror charges.
That sparked fears that Iraq's fragile year-old unity government could fall apart, shortly after the last US soldiers left the country.
Fighting between Sunnis and Shia left thousands dead in the tit-for-tat attacks of 2006-2007.
The entire al-Iraqiyya Sunni political bloc is boycotting parliament and the cabinet in protest at the warrant, while the Sunni Deputy Prime Minister Saleh al-Mutlak has said Iraq is facing "chaos and disaster".
Mr Hashemi, who is now in Iraq's semi-autonomous northern Kurdistan Region, has denied any wrongdoing.
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