The volatile situation in Somalia and Sudan's Darfur region will top the agenda of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) meeting that started here on Sunday.

Hussein Kyanjo, a Ugandan lawmaker and also one of the organizers of the eight-day meeting of the Parliamentary Union of Islamic Conference, an affiliate of OIC, told reporters that the legislators will discuss foreign intervention in Somalia.

"The Somalia issue is a specific feature the political committee is going to discuss in detail," he said at Commonwealth Speke Resort Hotel Munyonyo, on the shores of Lake Victoria.

African Union (AU) has deployed over 4,000 peacekeepers in Somalia where Islamic militants, al Shabaab, are fighting the Somali Transitional Federal Government.

According to AU, foreign fighters with links to al Qaeda have teamed up with the al Shabaab to fight the government there.

The over 500 delegates from 51 member states and 13 parliamentary union observer groups around the world will also discuss the situation in Sudan's Darfur region during the meeting.

Documents prepared for the meeting show that the delegates will discuss how they can stand by Sudan against what they called all international threats and to affirm its sovereignty and legitimate leadership.

Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir was indicted by the International Criminal Court for his alleged responsibility for crimes committed in Darfur in western Sudan.

Among other topics to be discussed include the Palestine-Israel question, Iraq situation and combating terrorism under the United Nations umbrella among others.

The conference dubbed the Sixth Session of the Conference of The Parliamentary Union of the OIC member states will be officially opened on Jan. 30 by Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni.

-- with input from xinhuanet.com news agency