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Native name | Pul nesvrstanih novinskih agencija / Пул несврстаних новинских агенција (Serbo-Croatian) |
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| Company type | State-owned enterprise |
| Industry | News media |
| Founded | 1974 |
| Defunct | 1990s |
| Successor | NAM News Network (2005) |
| Headquarters | , |
| Owner | Tanjug on behalf of theNon-Aligned Movement member states media |
TheNon-Aligned News Agencies Pool (NANAP) was a cooperation system amongnews agencies ofNon-Aligned countries, which lasted from 1975 to mid-1990s.[1] The NANAP was initially led, funded, and supported byYugoslavia'sTanjug, and gathered many state-owned news organizations, especially inAfrica andSouthern Asia. 26 news organizations joined the pool within the first year since the establishment.[1]
It was also known by many different translations, such as theNews Agencies Pool of Non-Aligned Countries, theConsorce of Non-Aligned News Agencies, and theCommon Agency of Non-Aligned Countries.
The NANAP was founded in late 1974 and started operations in January, 1975, initially with a series of wires with statements and congratulations by their supportingheads of state. The idea responded to many calls for a new balance inworld news made since the early 1970s by theNon-Aligned Movement (NAM) during the debates for aNew World Information and Communication Order (NWICO). Later, these discussions would be hosted by theUNESCO and would culminate in the approval of theMacBride Report in its 20th conference inBelgrade, 1980.
In the meantime, the NANAP operated as an international, collaborative, charges-free, and institutional cooperation between news agencies of theThird World. Its main goal was to provide their ownmass media channels with news which would be unbiased — or, at most, biased with their ownworldview — and offer acounter-hegemonical report on world news concerningdeveloping nations.
Tanjug, specifically, had a leading role not only by hosting and lending equipment, technicians, and trainingjournalists from underdeveloped, poorer countries, but also by taking into the systemits own self-management model. Although the Pool had no official headquarters, most of the operations in the first years were held in Belgrade.
Other active agencies in the Non-Aligned Pool were theMaghreb Arabe Presse (ofMorocco),TunisianTAP,Iraq'sINA andIranianIRNA.
The NANAP began a slow decline after 1980, when NWICO talks were moved to theUN framework, under theUNESCO. After both the United States and the United Kingdom retreated their memberships from the organization, the initiative lost financial support and suffered a boycott by pro-free-market Western institutions.
The decline in 1980 coincided with Josip Broz Tito's death, and the new leaderships in Yugoslavia deviated focus to other priorities. In the same year, Iraq and Iran startedtheir 8-years war and the NANAP was used as a mean by both INA and IRNA to circulatepropaganda warfare.
Although mostly inactive, the Pool was officially led by IRNA until the mid-1990s and then byMalaysia'sBernama until November 2005, when theSixth Conference of Ministers of Information of Non-Aligned Countries (COMINAC VI) hosted inKuala Lumpur endorsed its resurrection and transformation as the Internet-basedNAM News Network (NNN).[2][3]
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