[6] Despite recognizing the Free Syrian Army on 23 September 2012,[7] the FSA has dismissed the NCC as an extension of the government, stating that "this opposition is just the other face of the same coin".

[11] In September 2012 the NCC met with Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi, and called for a four-point plan which included political transition.

[15] The Preparatory Committee issued an eight-point statement which called for: After the pro-Assad Syrian Social Nationalist Party had withdrawn from the Popular Front for Change and Liberation,[17] the NCC on 10 August 2014 signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the remaining Popular Front, calling for ″comprehensive grassroots change, which means the transition from the current authoritarian regime to a democratic pluralistic system within a democratic civil State based on the principle of equal citizenship to all Syrians regardless of their ethnic, religious and sectarian identities.″[18] On 25 March 2019, the NCC condemned the United States' recognition of the disputed Golan Heights region as part of the State of Israel, calling on "the governments of the world and its peace-loving people" to oppose the US position.

[19] In June 2023, reports of cooperation between the NCC and the Syrian Democratic Council, the political organization of the Rojava Kurdish controlled areas in Northern Syria, emerged.

[20][21][22] In March 2012, the Coordination Committee was described by The New York Times as "one of Syria’s most moderate opposition groups" in the context of their demonstration where "officers in plain clothes beat them with sticks and began making arrests.

"[9] Prior to September 2012, its members did not call for the dismantlement of the Syrian government or the removal of Bashar al-Assad as president,[citation needed] apart from their 18 March 2012 demonstration in Damascus when some of them chanted, "The people want the fall of the regime".