Georgia's pro-Western President Salome Zurabishvili tells AFP in an exclusive interview that she will not step down until last month's contested parliamentary elections are re-run, claiming it is her constitutional "duty" to bring the country "down the European integration path". Zurabishvili also says that she is in talks to form a "national council", consisting of opposition figures and NGO representatives --which she calls the "political arm" of the new government's "deligitimisation process"-- to act as a transitional government until new elections are held. The comments come as thousands of people gather in Georgia's capital Tbilisi for a third night of protests against the government's decision to postpone European Union membership talks until 2028. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES