He vowed again on Monday to win back the entire country, which has been splintered into areas controlled by the state, an array of rebel factions, the Islamic State group, and the Kurdish YPG militia.
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“Our appeal is the following-it’s a simple one”, Jan Egeland, the top humanitarian aid official in de Mistura’s office, told the AP.
“Despite the progress that we’d seen with regard to the security situation on the ground in Syria, we haven’t seen the corresponding improvement in the flow of humanitarian assistance”.
The permits are needed for aid to reach most besieged areas in Syria, but not for the trucks waiting to cross the Turkish border and head to eastern Aleppo, the biggest flashpoint of recent fighting.
Mr Bogdanov said “they key criteria, is action”.
Egeland reiterated the call for quick action in allowing humanitarian access.
Jan Egeland, secretary-general of the Norwegian Refugee Council and special adviser to the United Nations envoy, decried the ineffectiveness of all parties in taking advantage of the truce, saying that aid could reach Aleppo by Friday.
Over 2,000 people were killed in 40 days of fighting in Aleppo until the cease-fire went into effect Monday.
Security also remains a chief concern for aid coordinators.
The ceasefire does not include the insurgent groups Nusra Front, which has renamed itself Jabhat Fateh al-Sham, and Islamic State.
France on Thursday called for Washington to disclose details of the truce deal to its allies bombing jihadists in the war-torn country.
The rebels also claim that Syrian forces and Russian Federation have used the exemption of terrorist groups from the ceasefire to attack their positions and civilian areas, which gives them little incentive to observe the ceasefire themselves.
The opposition has yet to officially sign the deal, and hours before the ceasefire began Assad said he was committed to recovering all of Syria.
According to al-Jazeera, the Syrian ceasefire applies to all of Syria, with Russian Federation carving out certain caveats, such as retaining the ability to strike groups like the Islamic State and al-Nusra, which have been ruled terrorist organizations by the United Nations.
Once the JIC is established, the Syrian government will be barred from conducting air operations in areas where the JIC is active.
US Secretary of State John Kerry, left, and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, walk in to their meeting room in Geneva, Switzerland, Friday, Sept. 9, 2016, to discuss the crisis in Syria.
Keaten reported from Geneva.
“All attempts by our U.S. partners to show to the world the opposition it has been sponsoring is controllable to some extent have been futile”.
“The ceasefire is being implemented very well, despite some breaches”.
In west Aleppo, a young boy died from his wounds after being hit by a sniper in the first death in areas covered by the truce since it started, the monitor said.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said it was unclear whose warplanes attacked Al-Mayadin.
He said the ceasefire appeared to be holding despite numerous breaches. The United States has backed some rebel groups and worked with the opposition, while Russian Federation is allied with the Syrian government of President Bashar al-Assad.
The stated goal of the Syrian ceasefire negotiations was to allow the United Nations to coordinate humanitarian aid to Syrian citizens in Aleppo and elsewhere who have been displaced by the ongoing conflict.
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A key point addressed by Washington and Moscow is how to manage the Castello Road, the only passage providing road access to east Aleppo where some 275,000 civilians are essentially trapped.
