Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman said on Sunday that Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas has become irrelevant following his speech at the United Nations General Assembly on Friday.

Liberman’s comments came in a meeting in New York with the foreign ministers of Canada, the Czech Republic, Greece, Austria and Rwanda.

Abbas’s speech “has made him irrelevant with regards to any attempts to reach an agreement between Israel and the Palestinians”, Liberman told his counterparts.

In his speech, Abbas accused Israel of “war crimes” and “genocide”,  garnering strong reactions from the U.S. – which called the tirade “offensive” – and from Israeli MKs across the political spectrum. 

In Sunday’s meeting, Liberman also thanked his counterparts for their country’s representatives voting against the anti-Israel proposal that was brought last week before the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

Liberman further warned at the meeting of the dangers from global terrorist organizations.

“The biggest threat right now to stability in the world is the terrorist organizations that work consistently to take over weapons of mass destruction by taking over countries,” he said, calling for a united and determined front against the efforts of those terrorist organizations.

Regarding the negotiations between the West and Iran, Liberman said he is pessimistic about the ability to reach an agreement.

“The Iranians must not be allowed to continue with the nuclear program which threatens to hurt even the little stability that still remains in the Middle East,” he said.