The Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe of the US Congress has invited for hearings Moldovan Ambassador Nicolae Chirtoaca; Valentina Cusnir, a former member of the Moldovan parliament; Nadine Gogu, acting director of the Independent Journalism Center in the Moldovan capital, Chisinau; and Louis O'Neill, a former U.S. ambassador to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). The hearings start in Washington at 10 am, the Washington Times is quoted by Info-Prim Neo as writing. In Chisinau it will be 5 pm. Commission Chairman Sen. Benjamin L. Cardin, Maryland Democrat, and Co-Chairman Rep. Alcee L. Hastings, Florida Democrat, expect the witnesses to discuss the future of U.S.-Moldova relations, after last week's parliamentary elections that reduced the power of the Communist Party and boosted the pro-Western opposition. The July 29 elections resulted from violent protests over an earlier poll in April, during which demonstrators accused the Communists of rigging the balloting to secure nearly 50 percent of the vote.