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Top UN envoy for Liberia poised to ask Security Council for 'large force' to rebuild country

In New York to press for the massive numbers of troops needed to stabilize and help rebuild Liberia, the top United Nations envoy for the country said today he would ask the Security Council "not to be indifferent" to the West African nation but to do its utmost to support a founding member of the UN "that had fallen on hard times because of poor leadership and exploitation."