The delegation planned to meet Egyptian activists and party representatives as 90 members of the Syrian National Council-led opposition met in Stockholm to strategize their struggle against Assad.

Yasser Najjar, a member of the delegation, told MENA that the delegation sought support for the recognition of the SNC, after which the exile group would hold a meeting to elect a leadership.

Ismail Al-Khalidi, a member of the council, told the news agency that “technical problems” had delayed such a meeting in Cairo, which he said would be convened “immediately after” the unspecified problems were resolved.

The SNC meeting comes as Assad’s security forces continue a crackdown against an uprising which the United Nations says has cost at least 2,900 lives since it erupted in mid-March.

The recently formed SNC includes most of Assad’s opponents, including the committees organizing protests on the ground, the Muslim Brotherhood as well as various Kurdish and Assyrian parties.

The council has been touring capital cities to rally support from the Arab and Western world.

Meanwhile, a prominent Syrian opposition figure on Saturday said coordination of the country’s fragmented opposition is “very important, even urgent” if the pro-democracy revolution in the Arab state is to advance further.

Bourhan Ghalioun, the unofficial chairman of the newly formed Syrian National Council, said in Stockholm he expects the organization will be recognized “in the coming few weeks.”

The creation of the broad-based council was announced last week in Turkey. Washington has welcomed the formation of the council but stopped short of recognizing it; neither has any country or international body.

“The SNC has just been established, we haven’t even finished constructing its institutions yet, but we’re hoping that it will be recognized in the coming few weeks,” Ghalioun told said. Ghalioun spoke on the sidelines of a two-day conference in Stockholm, where about one hundred opponents meeting Saturday in Stockholm to discuss ways to overthrow Assad’s regime.

Aside from the SNC, the conference also hosted other opposition parties and activists as well as representatives of various religious and ethnic groups, including the conservative Muslim Brotherhood movement and various Kurdish and Assyrian parties.

The results from the meetings in Stockholm are expected to be presented at a news conference on Monday.