The statement, carried by state media, came almost a full day into a truce brokered by Russian Federation and the United States that calls for immediate and unhindered humanitarian access throughout Syria.
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“Today calm appears to have prevailed across Hama, Latakia, Aleppo city and Rural Aleppo and Idlib, with only some allegations of sporadic and geographically isolated incidents”, de Mistura said.
The truce deal does not apply to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), or Jabhat Fateh al-Sham, the group formerly known as al-Nusra Front that changed its name after cutting ties with al-Qaeda in July.
The ceasefire, which was brokered by the United States and Russian Federation over the weekend, is the second attempt this year by Washington and Moscow to halt the five-year civil war.
On the humanitarian front, Mr.de Mistura said that to make sure that aid can reach those in need, there should be no conditions or preconditions to its delivery.
The sources said that the trucks left around noon (0900GMT) Tuesday from the Cilvegozu border gate. The UN and Turkey said that they intend to send more trucks filled with food, medical supplies, clothes and toys into Syria over the next few days.
But he said the United Nations was still waiting for Damascus to issue letters authorising the deliveries.
“We are waiting for this cessation of hostilities to actually deliver the assurances and the peace before trucks can start moving from Turkey. As I speak, that has not been the case”, Jens Laerke, spokesman for the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, said in Geneva.
“We need to enter an environment where we are not in mortal danger”.
De Mistura dismissed reports by Turkish state media that United Nations trucks on Tuesday crossed the border towards rebel held eastern Aleppo, which has not received aid since regime troops seized the Castello road in early July.
The Syrian truce marks the latest bid to end a conflict that has killed more than 300,000 people since March 2011.
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After five and a half years of a bloody war that turned millions of people into refugees, Syria woke up this morning (Tuesday) to what will hopefully be the first full day of the ceasefire. “Unfortunately, that can’t be said about the armed forces of the moderate opposition, backed by the United States”, he said.
