STAMFORD — One of Connecticut’s senators and a state representative for Stamford recently shared a “small world” moment while both were thousands of miles from home.

Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., and state Rep. Hubert Delany, D-144, ran into each other in the lobby of a hotel in Tirana, Albania last month.

Murphy, who serves on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, was in Albania as part of a CODEL — a congressional delegation — to the Balkans, said Deni Kamper, Murphy’s deputy communications director.

Delany, who represents a part of Stamford in the state House, was there on a military mission.

Delany is a military journalist and communications adviser in the U.S. Army Reserve. He said the goal of his mission, which is ongoing, is to “to strengthen our NATO alliance during an operation called ‘Immediate Response.’”

“My responsibility while overseas has been to report on the civil-military cooperation between our armed forces and the civilian populations we interact with,” Delany said in an email Friday. “I have been working closely with soldiers from Albania, North Macedonia (and) Kosovo, as well as a host of village elders, municipal officials and government representatives from foreign ministries of defense.”

Delany said he was heading to the Albanian Ministry of Defense for a briefing when he ran into Murphy.

“If his constituents were wondering why State Representative Hubert Delany wasn’t voting in Hartford this week, I can vouch that he’s on orders in the Balkans working on NATO integration!” Murphy said in a tweet. “Bumped into him in Tirana this morning. Small world!”

While in Albania, Murphy and fellow U.S. Sen. Gary Peters, D-Mich., met with the country’s president and prime minister as well as with Afghans who had fled the Taliban and were awaiting U.S. visas, according to a release from Murphy’s office. Peters and Murphy also visited Kosovo, Montenegro and Serbia on their trip.