SANAA - Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh on Friday said he is ready to transfer the power peacefully to safe hands.

"Power will not be submitted to malevolent hands. The anarchists are forbidden from receiving the power," Saleh reaffirmed in a speech to the public in Sanaa, referring to the opposition.

But he added that he is ready to hand over the power to "good hands."

In the speech which was broadcasted by the state television, Saleh accused the opposition of being malicious and haters against good things.

In front of his loyalists, who dubbed the day "Friday of tolerance", Saleh said the listeners' attendance manifested a popular will against the "adventurers and conspirators" who only care about disrupting Yemen.

He also called on the youths to establish a political party and to join the dialogue.