Haytham Manna, head of the National Coordination Body for Democratic Change in Exile - NCB, has rejected any foreign military intervention in response to the alleged attacks of chemical weapons in Damascus countryside. He told the United Press International - UPI that the chemical weapons used are locally made. Manna told UPI on Sunday 25 August 2013, "The National Coordination Body rejects any foreign military intervention in any form and considers it an attack on the Syrian people."

He continued saying that they demanded an end to arming all parties in the conflict and to the killing and destruction in Syria.

Manna said that they rejected diverting attention from the daily killings in Syria as if the chemical victims are a golden egg while the 100,000 victims are merely a matter for consideration. He noted that within the past two weeks, more than a thousand citizens were kidnapped on the basis of their religious and ethnic identity; some of them were later found in mass graves.

Manna added that serious willingness to hold the Geneva II Conference- which he described as a road map to stop the destruction- before October was the best response to the fragmentation experienced by the country.