国际英语新闻：Guinea-Bissau PM says will not resign, situation stable

DAKAR, April 2 (Xinhua) -- Guinea-Bissau Prime Minister Carlos Gomes Junior said Friday he will not resign and situation in the country is stable.

Gomes said he will not resign because he was democratically elected and he considered what happened on Thursday as an incident.

He said after meeting with President Malam Bacai Sanha that the situation in the West African country had stabilized after apparent coup attempts, where the prime minister was arrested by military officers on Thursday morning and released hours later.

"The situation is now stable," he said, adding that institutions will return to their normal functions. Coup attempts have repeatedly hit the African country since late 2008.

The country's Minister of Territorial Administration Luis Sanca was also taken hostage after a group of soldiers broke into the office of the prime minister in the capital Bissau.