Thailand Prime Minister: 'I Will Not Resign'

"I understand, I can feel their difficulties. I myself must be very soft and gentle," he explains, saying he will use the law to resolve this matter. "I cannot smash on any kind of thing. It might not be please to everyone, but I must do."

Thailand's Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej addresses media. "I will not resign. No reason, groundless," Samak tells ABC News.

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The protest area is filled with music and food stalls, with people selling souvenirs and T-shirts. Samak says he is in no rush to remove people from the Government House, adding that he has been able to conduct business elsewhere.

"When we put just a deadline, that is the hard way. Soft way, we try to solve," Samak explains. "[With a] soft way, we talk to the one who has responsibility, the commander in chief of the army. We talk and we say that we do agree. It takes time.

"Now this group [is] in the place, we [lost] face on that, that's OK [...]," Samak says to ABC News. "But now they know, we can seal them."

To "seal" the protesters, the military and police plan to surround the grounds of the Government House and allow the protestors to leave, but not go back in.

"I make a proclamation for the emergency, and we think we solve the problem. The military says that no, this time we must kick the ball out of the field first," says Samak, referring to declaring Bangkok in a state of emergency on Tuesday and stressing the need to be patient.

"We need time, we must consult by the side of the field. We'll come back again. The game must end, the game must end," he says. "Give me time."

While the protest area has primarily been isolated to one area in the capital -- surrounded by barbed wire, barricades and, at times, the military and police -- the Bangkok Post reported that on Thursday night two students were shot and injured while marching with a protest group about four miles from Samak's residence. Publicly absent from these events is King Bhumibol Adulaydej, who has intervened in the past to bring about a resolution to political crises. Samak visited the king last weekend and provided him with a report, the contents of which have been kept private.

"Give me time," Samak tells ABC News. "We must do it soft and gentle, because it's not only the Thai who are looking at this, it's the whole world, it's the whole world."