The BBC's Jim Muir in Beirut: "The truce is clearly shaky"
Violence has fallen in Syria as a fragile ceasefire takes hold, although both sides are reporting violations.
Syrian state TV said a roadside bomb in the city of Aleppo had killed one person and wounded 24.
The opposition said three people had been killed in Idlib and Hama and there was "no evidence" of a significant withdrawal by Syrian troops.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said the onus was on the Syrian government to match words with deeds.
He described the ceasefire as "fragile" and said the international community "must act as one" if Syria's descent into chaos was to be halted.
A huge task remains if the ceasefire is to be converted into a stable peace.
Government troops, tanks and heavy weapons remain in and around populations centres. Their withdrawal was to have been the first step in the Annan peace process, to be completed last Tuesday.
Rebel fighters have said they will resume their attacks if the military is not withdrawn. That would provide justification for the regime to resume its crackdown.
The deployment of UN observers might help stabilise the truce. But negotiations over their frame of reference seem to have hit snags.
Under the Annan plan, protestors should have the right to demonstrate freely. But security forces are unlikely to allow them to gather in city centres, especially in Damascus, so friction may ensue.
Behind all this lies the massive question of what kind of a Syria will emerge, an issue fiercely contested not just within the country, but by regional powers.
"The world is watching, however, with sceptical eyes, since many promises previously made by the government of Syria have not been kept," Mr Ban told a news conference in Geneva.
He said the UN was making plans to send an observer team to Syria as promptly as possible.
UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan, who brokered the ceasefire as part of a wider peace plan, said he was "encouraged" that the cessation of hostilities appeared to be holding and called for it to be sustained.
"All parties have obligations to implement fully the six-point plan. This includes both the military provisions of the plan and the commitment to move to a political process," Mr Annan said.
Checkpoint shootingThe ceasefire came into force early on Thursday.
Little violence was reported during the morning, but the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights later said one man had been shot dead at a checkpoint in Hama province.
At about 15:30 local time (12:30 GMT), Syrian state TV reported what it described as a roadside bomb in Aleppo which killed one military officer and wounded 24, said to be officers and cadets.
It said "terrorists" were escalating attacks to destabilise the country and sabotage the Annan plan.
An activist video posted online, which could not be verified, appeared to show a government tank and machine guns opening fire in Homs, a centre of anti-government protest, and a sniper in place on a rooftop.
Activists also accused the security forces of shooting at people staging a protest in Idlib, shelling areas of Hama and firing on a funeral at Aleppo in the north.
"There is no evidence of a significant withdrawal," opposition Syrian National Council (SNC) spokeswoman Basma Kodmani told a news briefing in Geneva.
The BBC's correspondent in Beirut, Jim Muir, says the level of violence has clearly dropped sharply, but that it is clear the ceasefire is far from perfect.
If the ceasefire does hold, the focus is expected to fall on the withdrawal of government troops, tanks and heavy weaponry, says our correspondent. That step was supposed to have been completed on Tuesday.
The truce will also be a test of how unified and disciplined the inexperienced rebel army can be, he adds.
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