Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said he respects the Serbian Orthodox Church (SOC) and its representatives very much, BETA news agency reported.

He added he won’t be saying bad things about representatives of the SOC, who, as he said, “throw stones at him on a daily basis.”

“I have full trust in the Patriarch Irinej. I belong to the Serbian Orthodox Church and if you expect me to say something bad about it, I won’t do that, not even about those who are throwing stones at me on a daily basis. I do not want to enter that,” Vucic said to the journalists in Belgrade.

He added, everybody has the possibility to tell the people “this is what our heart tells us, and this is why our reason is saying,” BETA news agency reported.