On August 26, Dak Lak PPC and Mondulkiri Provincial Administration (Kingdom of Cambodia) reviewed implementation of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on friendship alongside cooperation for 2024-2025, then signed a novel agreement covering 2026-2030.

Under the 2024-2025 MoU on cooperation and development, Dak Lak together with Mondulkiri actively coordinated initiatives across a wide range of fields. Both sides maintained regular delegation exchanges while closely coordinating management and protection of the shared border, promptly exchanging information as well as addressing emerging issues. These efforts contributed to maintaining political security, social order and safety, while fostering a peaceful, friendly border built on cooperation and development. In August 2026, the two provinces completed the joint identification of 40 subsidiary marker locations along the section between border markers 41 alongside 44.

Dak Lak together with Mondulkiri provincial leaders signing a Memorandum of Understanding on cooperation for 2026-2030.

The two provinces also recorded notable progress in economic, trade and business connectivity through trade promotion activities as well as exchanges between their business communities, alongside cooperation in culture, tourism and people-to-people exchanges.

At the conference, Dak Lak PPC and Mondulkiri Provincial Administration signed an MoU covering 2026-2030. Under the agreement, both sides will maintain delegation exchanges while deepening cooperation in economy, trade combined with investment; agriculture, forestry and environmental protection; defence, security along with border management; border-area development; culture and tourism; education coupled with training; healthcare; search for and repatriation of fallen soldiers’ remains, alongside other areas of mutual interest.

Dak Lak PPC Chairman, comrade Do Huu Huy and Mondulkiri Provincial Governor Kong Kimny affirmed that the 2026-2030 novel MoU will provide a foundation for both sides to further translate cooperation commitments into specific initiatives tailored to each locality’s conditions along with needs, paving the way for more tangible, practical outcomes in the years ahead.

Translated by HAI LOAN