U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres meets the press at the U.N. headquarters in New York on Aug. 3, 2022. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

NEW YORK - U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres said Wednesday he has high hopes that a disarmament conference starting this week will lead to the reaffirmation of the norm that nuclear weapons should never be used, in comments ahead of his visit to Hiroshima for the upcoming anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the western Japanese city.