GENEVA — Syrian government officials removed trauma kits and surgical supplies from trucks that are part of an inter-agency convoy heading into the besieged Syrian enclave of Eastern Ghouta, a World Health Organization (WHO) official told Reuters on Monday. All trauma (kits), surgical, dialysis sessions and insulin were rejected by security, a WHO official said by email, adding that some 70 percent of the supplies loaded on its trucks leaving its warehouses had been removed during the inspection. The United Nations said on Sunday that it had received approval for the convoy to the government-besieged area of 400,000 near Damascus, which only one small convoy reached in mid-February. In comments broadcast by state television on Sunday, Assad dismissed Western statements about the humanitarian situation in eastern Ghouta as a ridiculous lie. A convoy sent by the Syrian Arab Red Crescent reached the crossing point into Eeastern Ghouta early on Monday along with empty buses sent by the government to evacuate civilians who might come out of the enclave, a Reuters witness said. The first vehicles from a second convoy sent by the United Nations arrived soon after, the witness said. The UN's aid agency OCHA said on Sunday it aimed to deliver a convoy with 46 truckloads of health, food and nutrition supplies to Eastern Ghouta on Monday. A WHO official told Reuters that Syrian government officials had rejected 70 percent of the supplies it had prepared for Monday's convoy, including all trauma (kits), surgical, dialysis sessions and insulin. Concern for civilians in Eastern Ghouta helped prompt a UN Security Council resolution a week ago demanding a full ceasefire across all of Syria. Russia, a veto-wielding member which accepted the resolution, says it does not apply to the rebel groups in Eastern Ghouta, which Moscow regards as members of terrorist groups banned by the United Nations. Moscow has instead established daily humanitarian pauses in the assault each day from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. — Reuters