TBILISI. March 11 (Interfax) - The Georgian armed forces are entering a new stage in international military cooperation, President Mikheil Saakashvili told the families of servicemen killed in the August hostilities.

"Whereas previously our army was only trained for peacekeeping operations - in fact, for performing police functions, today the army is undergoing accelerated training to safeguard peace in Georgia, so no one will venture to bring war on us," Saakashvili said.

"This task will be fulfilled to the end and our country's state system will be encased in concrete," he said.

Saakashvili again spoke about "the Kremlin's perfidious plans (in August 2008) to seize Tbilisi and to overthrow the Georgian government."

"80,000 Russian servicemen, 3,000 tanks and 200 planes invaded Georgia then," he said. "The probability the war could restart today is low. But there are no absolute guarantees on that," Saakashvili said.