GENEVA (Sputnik), Svetlana Alexandrova – Earlier in the day, Jan Egeland, special advisor to the United Nations special envoy for Syria, said that the organization was unable to deliver humanitarian aid to six areas in Syria as it had not received governmental permission.
"According to my information, there is no area to which the Syrian government denied a humanitarian access. The UN people that I met here in Damascus have never told me that the government preventing them from delivering aid," Tarek Ahmad said.
The official stressed that the situation in the besieged eastern Syrian city of Deir ez-Zor was difficult.
"IS [Islamic State] is there and it is very far — on the border with Iraq. Besides, right now there is fighting in Aleppo, and the rebels are the ones who trying to block access to the area," Ahmad added.
The International Syria Support Group (ISSG), co-chaired by Russia and the United States, called in a February 12 communique for swift humanitarian access to be provided to all besieged areas of Syria and for a cessation of hostilities.
On February 22, Moscow and Washington announced an agreement for a Syrian ceasefire, reached in accordance with the ISSG communique. The ceasefire took effect on Saturday and is generally holding across the country despite reported minor violations.
