PARIS (Dispatches) -- The United States has "disqualified" itself from the Middle East talks due to its recognition of Jerusalem Al-Quds as the "capital” of the occupying regime of Israel, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on Friday.
"The United States are no longer an honest mediator in the peace process, we will not accept any plan put forward by the United States," said Abbas, speaking through a translator at a joint news briefing in Paris with French President Emmanuel Macron.
The French president said that the U.S. had "marginalized itself" in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict by unilaterally recognizing Jerusalem Al-Quds as the "capital” of Israel.
Abbas also condemned a threat by U.S. President Donald Trump to cut off financial aid to countries that voted at the United Nations against the U.S. decision on Al-Quds.
On Thursday, more than 120 countries defied Trump and voted in favor of a UN General Assembly resolution calling for the U.S. to drop its recent recognition of Jerusalem Al-Quds as the Zionist regime’s so-called capital.
Also speaking on Friday, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan called for the United States to step back from its decision.
"Despite threats, the UN took an honorable stance," Erdogan said at a meeting of his AK Party in Istanbul. "The U.S. should turn back from this wrong step."
Trump had threatened to cut off financial aid to countries that voted in favor.  
"The U.S. attitude ahead of the UN vote will be remembered in the history of democracy as an ugly and unforgivable act," Erdogan said.
In the end 128 member states voted in favor of the motion, with nine opposing and 35 abstaining.
The nine countries which opposed were Guatemala, Honduras, the Zionist regime of Israel, Palau, the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, Togo and the U.S.
Three of the nine countries had been American colonies and are still partly governed by mutual agreements with Washington.
Four of those countries are small islands in the Pacific with a collective population the size of Mobile, Alabama - fewer than 200,000.
"The White House picked up the phone and called these countries one by one, threatening them blatantly," Erdogan said.
Critics of the U.S. president say the tally of the UN vote shows that his unilateral decision on Jerusalem Al-Quds violates the international consensus that the status of the holy city should be decided by negotiations.
The Zionist regime illegally occupied East Al-Quds in 1967 and subsequently annexed it in 1980 not known by the UN.
Macron said France would recognize a Palestinian state "at the right time", and not under pressure.
Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak vowed on Friday to use every means to protest against Trump's recognition of Jerusalem Al-Quds.
"We will continue to fight on this issue, using every available means, through political and diplomatic channels, through discussion and prayer, until one day, God willing, Jerusalem belongs to the Palestinian people," Najib told a rally in the administrative capital of Putrajaya.
He said he would not "sacrifice the sanctity of Islam" despite his friendship with Trump. Najib visited the White House in September.
"It is our first duty as Muslims to uphold the religion. If Al-Quds is a sacred land for Muslims, then it is upon us to free it from the grasps of Zionists," Najib said.