UN - certain questions

Editorial, The Hindu, July 19, 2013 discusses a question: Is United Nations racist? Ramesh Thakkur, a former senior UN official himself, thinks so. Most of the top posts of the UN are held by Westerners.The UN is cynical about non-Europeans occupying its important offices because, Ramesh says, probably they are prejudiced about Asians, or Africans- or non-Europeans for the matter- are incompetent and inefficient.In other words, they think that others are racially inferior to the Europeans. But this can be understood as a myth, if we are are open to study the examples from the real world.
Asians contribute about 60% of the world population. But the representation that the whole of Asia has in the senior staff of the Secretariat is roughly equal to the number of representation for two countries: Canada and the U.S.-which constitute just 5% of the world population. A striking point which Ramesh puts foreward  in the context is that wouldn't we be outraged if the top two posts of the U.N women were men? Then how come the developing countries raise no voice against the double standards set by their developed counterparts? The disputing answer he comes to is that the developing countries have come to terms with the inferiority imposed upon them.Maybe the point was already clear when Ramesh put towards the beginning of his discourse that Sergio Vieira de Mello, one of the brightest UN officials, was 'more European than most Europeans'. The unconscious servility of our collective racial mind may have unintentionally found an expression in these lines.

http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2013/04/us-must-demand-transparency-and-accountability-in-appointment-of-top-level-un-officials
This is an article by Brett D. Schaefer, the Jay Kingham Fellow in International Regulatory Affairs at Heritage's Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom. This is a point in his aritcle: 
"Indeed, it is widely recognized that certain senior positions are coveted by certain countries or regions, and that the Secretary-General often appoints candidates proffered by certain nations, or groups of nations, to specific USG and ASG positions.Senior officials appointed by the General Assembly cannot be removed by the Secretary-General without that body’s consent."