Global health and foreign policy: a healthier world through better nutrition A/RES/73/132 importance of food as part of the cultural heritage and a vehicle to promote nutrition literacy; 17. Reaffirms the importance of the availability, access and affordability of food that is adequate both in quantity and in quality to promote proper nutrition in contexts of humanitarian emergencies, including natural disasters, in order to avoid hunger and to preserve and promote the health of affected populations; 18. Calls upon Member States to promote, enhance and support sustainable agriculture, including crops, forestry, fisheries and aquaculture, that improves food security, eradicates hunger, helps to prevent malnutrition and is economically viable and environmentally sustainable, enhancing resilience to climate change and natural disasters, and recognizes the need to support sustainable and efficient food production systems and ensure food security; 19. Encourages international cooperation to facilitate trade in agricultural products to improve food security and to address problems of both food -importing and food-exporting countries; 20. Calls upon Member States to support and engage with initiatives that promote multisectoral approaches and multi-stakeholder partnerships, by bringing together civil society and the private sector to mobilize all their available resources, as appropriate, while giving due regard to managing conflicts of interest, through due diligence to accelerate progress and reduce all forms of malnutrition; 21. Encourages greater coherence and coordination among United Nations bodies, specialized agencies and entities on matters related to global health and foreign policy; 22. Urges Member States to enhance international cooperation and official development assistance for health, notably nutrition, to support and complement national and regional strategies, policies and programmes, and surveillance initiatives; 23. Welcomes the high-level meeting of the General Assembly on the fight against tuberculosis, held in New York on 26 September 2018, and reaffirms its political declaration, entitled “United to end tuberculosis: an urgent global response to a global epidemic”; 16 24. Also welcomes the third high-level meeting of the General Assembly on the prevention and control of non-communicable diseases, held in New York on 27 September 2018, and reaffirms its political declaration, entitled “Time to deliver: accelerating our response to address non-communicable diseases for the health and well-being of present and future generations”; 17 25. Looks forward to the high-level meeting of the General Assembly on universal health coverage, to be held in New York in September 2019, under the theme “Universal health coverage: moving together to build a healthier world ”; 26. Encourages the Secretary-General to promote discussion among Member States and relevant stakeholders on appropriate policy options to promote access to medicines, innovation and health technologies; 27. Recalls the invitation to the Secretary-General to inform the General Assembly about the implementation of the United Nations Decade of Action on Nutrition (2016–2025), on the basis of the biennial reports jointly compiled by t he Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the World Health Organization; __________________ 16 17 18-21867 Resolution 73/3. Resolution 73/2. 9/10