The UN Security Council is expected to approve some 15,000 peacekeepers for Liberia by Friday to try and restore law and order in the West African country.
The US-drafted resolution would include 900 international police, integrate some of the African peacekeepers there now into the UN force and help build a democratic government.
"The general Security Council consensus is that this is a failed state," Mr Jacques Paul Klein, the chief UN envoy for Liberia, said last night. "Now we have to rebuild the state.
"The former troops are robbing, raping. This situation will get worse before it gets better as the fighting is over and there is not yet any UN mission in place," Mr Klein told reporters after addressing the council.
He said he had offers of troops from Bangladesh, Pakistan, South Africa, Ethiopia and Namibia. Ireland is expected to supply a headquarters company, and Russia may contribute 1,200 soldiers and officers.
Most European nations say they would help, provided there was some kind of US presence in Liberia. No troops are expected from the United States, but Mr Klein said he hoped the Bush administration would continue a "residual" presence, such as helping with logistics, funds and transport.
Liberia, founded by freed American slaves, has over the past decade been blamed for exporting fighters throughout the region, whenever it served the interests of its former government, headed by Mr Charles Taylor.
Mr Taylor, who has been indicted by a UN-backed court for inciting war in neighbouring Sierra Leone, went into exile in Nigeria in August under international pressure after rebels pushed deep into the capital Monrovia.