Michael Terrell is as reliably ill-informed as ever. The majority of the United Nations staff isn't European
"The working of the quota system in North-South terms for these 2,600 professional-level posts, shows that the developing countries accounted for 44.6 per cent, while other countries (i.e. all European countries -- except those derived from former Yugoslavia -- plus Australia, Canada, Cyprus, Japan, New Zealand, Turkey, and the United States) accounted for 55.4 per cent. This ratio is also replicated at Director level (D2) and above category of posts, which play a key role in policy, decision-making, management and staff leadership.
These percentages show that a quarter-century after decolonization was virtually completed, the North, with a minority of member states and of world population, still has more nationals in UN posts that are supposed to be subject to geographical distribution than the great majority of the world's member states and world population in the South. This unbalanced situation -- which is even more pronounced in extra-budgetary posts not subject to geographical distribution where nationals of 20 Northern countries occupy 68 per cent of the total -- is partly due to the impact of the weights assigned to assessed contributions and partly to problems of recruitment."
Since the Americans still occupy 12.6% of the places, the remaining staff from all the other developed countries is only 42.8% of the total, which isn't a majority. It is theoretically possible - but very unlikely - that Europeans could occupy a majority of extra-budgetary posts, but Michael Terrell wouldn't be able to dig out the data to prove it even if it did happen to be true
One of the more depressing things about right-wing nit-wits is their capacty to get excited about problems that only exist in their fevered imaginations, and their total inability to test their imagined data against the real world.
-- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen