Vasyl Paneiko

Vasyl Paneiko (Ukrainian: Василь Лукич Панейко) (1883, Zlotshev – May 29, 1956, Caracas)^[1] he was Ukrainian politician, journalist and diplomat. Secretary of State of Foreign Affairs of the West Ukrainian People's Republic (1918–1919).

Vasyl Paneiko Василь Лукич Панейко
Secretary of State of Foreign Affairs of the West Ukrainian People's Republic
In office 1918–1919
Succeeded by	Lonhyn Tsehelsky
Personal details
Born	1883 (1883) Zlotshev
Died	29 May 1956(1956-05-29) (aged 72–73) Caracas
Alma mater	University of Lviv

Education

He graduate Faculty of Law of the University of Lviv. He was member of the Ukrainian National Democratic Alliance. In 1907 the newspaper Dilo collaborator. In the years 1912-1918 the chief editor Dilo^[2] (Lviv during the occupation by the Russian army in 1914-15 published in Vienna). One of the editors of the weekly Ukrainische Korrespondenz. In November 1918, elected Secretary of State of Foreign Affairs of the West Ukrainian People's Republic.^[3] In 1919, Vice-President of the Ukrainian delegation to the Paris Peace Conference,^[4] from December 1919 President of the West Ukrainian People's Republic delegation at the conference.

Since 1920 he was a foreign correspondent Dilo. From 1925, he appeared biweekly Dilo and Politics in Lviv, and later was a correspondent for Dilo in Paris. In the thirties of the twentieth century. Removed from political life. In 1945 he emigrated to the United States, and in 1955, to Venezuela.

Author

• Панейко В. З'єдинені держави Східної Европи: Галичина в Україні супроти Польщі й Росії.— Відень: Накладом автора, 1922. — 82 с.

Bibliography

• Décisions du Conseil Suprême sur la Galicie Orientale: Les plus importants documents, intro M. Lozynsky (Paris 1919)
• Notes présentées par la Délégation de la République Ukrainienne à la Conférence de la Paix à Paris (Paris 1919)
• Lozyns’kyi, M. Halychyna v rr. 1918–1920 (Vienna 1922; repr New York 1970)
• Lundgreen-Nielsen, K. The Polish Problem at the Paris Peace Conference: A Study of the Policies of the Great Powers and the Poles, 1918–1919 (Odense 1979)

References

1. Profile of Vasyl Paneiko
2. Dilo
3. Foreign ministers S-Z - Rulers
4. Paris Peace Conference

External links

• Paris Peace Conference
• Federalism
• Galicia (Poland-Ukraine).
• Дипломатична діяльність Василя Панейка на Паризькій мирній конференції
• Новая Земля.