A/RES/72/139 Global health and foreign policy: addressing the health of the most vulnerable for an inclusive society 18. Reiterates the call upon Member States to make greater investments in and promote decent work with adequate remuneration in the health and social sectors, enable safe working environments and conditions, effective retention and equitable and broad distribution of the health workforce, and strengthen capacities to optimize the existing health workforce, including by expanding rural and community-based health education and training and strengthening health professional education in both the institutional and instructional dimensions, to create a more effective and socially accountable health workforce; 19. Urges Member States to reinforce the protection of medical personnel and humanitarian personnel exclusively engaged in medical duties, their means of transport and equipment, and hospitals and other medical facilities, especially in armed conflict, consistent with their specific obligations under international humanitarian law, recognizing the need to enhance the protection of medical missions in order to support the restoration and provision of essential health-care services to ensure that physical and mental health needs are met for civilians affected by conflict, in particular for women and children; 20. Encourages greater coherence and coordination among United Nations bodies, specialized agencies and entities on matters related to global health and foreign policy, including through the consideration, where appropriate, of related actions; 21. Requests the Secretary-General, in close collaboration with the World Health Organization, development partners and other relevant initiatives, such as the International Health Partnership for UHC2030, to provide support to Member States, especially through technical assistance and capacity-building programmes, for the development and strengthening of the sustainability of universal health coverage at the national level with the aim of promoting access to health services for the most vulnerable; 22. Welcomes the convening of the World Health Organization First Global Ministerial Conference on Ending Tuberculosis in the Sustainable Development Era: A Multisectoral Response, held in Moscow on 16 and 1 7 November 2017, and takes note with appreciation of its outcome, which forms part of the way towards the highlevel meeting of the General Assembly on tuberculosis to be held in 2018; 23. Also welcomes the convening of the World Health Organization Global Conference on Non-Communicable Diseases: Enhancing Policy Coherence between Different Spheres of Policymaking That Have a Bearing on Attaining Sustainable Development Goal Target 3.4 on Non-Communicable Diseases by 2030, held in Montevideo from 18 to 20 October 2017, as part of the preparations for the high-level meeting of the General Assembly on the comprehensive review and assessment of the progress achieved in the prevention and control of non-communicable diseases; 24. Decides to hold a high-level meeting in 2019 on universal health coverage, and requests the President of the General Assembly, in close collaboration with the Director General of the World Health Organization and in consultation with Member States, to propose options and modalities for the conduct of such a meeting, with a view to ensuring the most effective and efficient outcomes, including potential deliverables, complementing and building on existing efforts in this regard, before the end of the seventy-second session; 25. Requests the Secretary-General, in close collaboration with the Director General of the World Health Organization as well as other relevant international organizations, to report to the General Assembly at its seventy-third session, under the item entitled “Global health and foreign policy”, on improving international 8/9 17-22392