Vasyl Paneiko ( uk, Василь Лукич Панейко) (1883, Zlotshev – May 29, 1956,

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. Secretary of State of Foreign Affairs of the West Ukrainian People's Republic (1918–1919).

Education

He graduated from the Faculty of Law of the

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. He was a member of the

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. In 1907 the newspaper Dilo collaborator. In the years 1912-1918 the chief editor Dilo (Lviv during the occupation by the Russian army in 1914-15 published in

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). 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. In 1919, vice-president of the Ukrainian delegation to the Paris Peace Conference,Paris Peace Conference
/ref> 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

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, and later was a correspondent for Dilo in

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. In the thirties of the twentieth century. Removed from political life. In 1945 he emigrated to the

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, and in 1955, to

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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

External links

Paris Peace Conference

Galicia (Poland-Ukraine)

Дипломатична діяльність Василя Панейка на Паризькій мирній конференції

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Paneiko 1883 births 1956 deaths People from Zolochiv, Lviv Oblast Ukrainian Austro-Hungarians People from the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria Foreign ministers of Ukraine Ukrainian diplomats Ukrainian editors 20th-century Ukrainian journalists University of Lviv alumni