| Vasyl Paneiko Василь Лукич Панейко | |
| Office: | Secretary of State of Foreign Affairs of the West Ukrainian People's Republic |
| Term Start: | 1918 |
| Term End: | 1919 |
| Successor: | Lonhyn Tsehelsky |
| Birth Place: | Zlotshev |
| Death Place: | Caracas |
| Alma Mater: | University of Lviv |
Vasyl Paneiko (Ukrainian: Василь Лукич Панейко) (1883, Zlotshev – May 29, 1956, Caracas)[1] was a Ukrainian politician, journalist and diplomat. Secretary of State of Foreign Affairs of the West Ukrainian People's Republic (1918–1919).
He graduated from the Faculty of Law of the University of Lviv. He was a 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.