Gennady Vladimirovich Kuzmin (Russian: Геннадий Владимирович Кузьмин)[1] is a Russian diplomat, serving as of 2022 as Deputy Permanent Representative of theMission of Russia to the United Nations.[2] He is best known for a resolution adopted by theeleventh emergency special session of the United Nations General Assembly on 7 April 2022, in which he took part to defendRussia from getting suspended from theUnited Nations Human Rights Council.[3] He has also stated that the resolution was "politically motivated".[4]