A senior official of Nihon Hidankyo, or the Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations, on Saturday voiced his disappointment as an international nuclear nonproliferation conference broke down again.

It was ¡°simply regrettable¡± that the 2026 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, or NPT, ended in New York on Friday without an outcome document after four weeks of discussions, Nihon Hidankyo Secretary-General Jiro Hamasumi said at an online news conference.

The NPT review conference failed to adopt a final document for the third consecutive meeting due chiefly to differences over Iran¡¯s nuclear development program.