Gennady Kuzmin (diplomat)

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

References
  1. "Постоянное представительство Российской Федерации при ООН". russiaun.ru. Retrieved 2022-04-27.
  2. "Permanent Mission of the Russian Federation to the United Nations". russiaun.ru. Retrieved 2022-04-08.
  3. "Ukraine: UN suspends Russia from Human Rights Council". Ctvnews. 7 April 2022. Retrieved 2022-04-08.
  4. "General Assembly Adopts Text to Suspend Russian Federation from Human Rights Council, Continuing Emergency Special Session on Humanitarian Crisis in Ukraine | Meetings Coverage and Press Releases". un.org. Retrieved 2022-04-08.
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