When a trade association publishes its board roster, a title can look like shorthand for a complete portfolio. The Cyprus Vaping Association’s Board of Directors page lists Nikolas Papasolomontos as Director of International Affairs. That is a precise, published fact. What the public record does not provide is a role description, a list of responsibilities, a travel schedule, a treaty file, a foreign-partner list or any statement of representative authority. For readers, journalists, members and observers, the safest and most accurate approach is to treat the title as exactly that: a title. The association was founded in 2026 under the auspices of OEB, the Employers and Industrialists Federation of Cyprus, with the stated main aim of promoting correct information and responsible communication about vaping. That organisational context matters, but it does not fill in individual duties.

What the Published Record Actually Establishes

The published record is narrow and should be respected as such. The Cyprus Vaping Association has posted a Board of Directors page headed “The Board of Directors of the Cyprus Vaping Association,” and it has published a “Board of Directors Elections” news item under Latest News. The elections post says that board positions were elected at a meeting in September 2026 at the OEB Building in Nicosia. The roster lists Kostas Nikolaou as President, Christos Tamamounas as Vice President, Stavros Charalambous as Secretary, Steve Towler as Treasurer, Nikolas Papasolomontos as Director of International Affairs, and Antonis Sotiriou and Christos Savva as Board Members.

The same seven names first appear in connection with the Founding Assembly in June 2026. At that stage, the announcement did not attach officer titles to the names; it said the Board of Directors would be formed into a body at its next meeting. The later elections post and board page supply the titles now visible to the public. The Latest News page, as reviewed in November 2026, lists the elections post and a separate announcement that the association became a new member of OEB in August 2026. There is no third news item that describes the Director of International Affairs role, and the board page does not add responsibilities beneath the title.

This is why the title should not be expanded by assumption. A reader may associate “international affairs” with diplomacy, trade missions, foreign delegations, treaty discussion or cross-border representation. None of those functions is published as a duty of the role. The record supports a simple statement: Nikolas Papasolomontos is listed as Director of International Affairs on the association’s board. It does not support claims that he negotiates agreements, represents the association abroad, manages an international department, speaks for the association on foreign policy, or coordinates with named foreign bodies. Those would be invented duties, and they would turn a governance label into a fictional job description.

Why a Title Is Not a Job Description

A title inside a member association is not the same thing as a job description. Titles can indicate rank, office, board status or a designated portfolio, but the scope of that portfolio must come from an authoritative source. In the case of the Cyprus Vaping Association, the authoritative public sources are the board page, the elections post, the Latest News listing and the OEB membership announcement. They give names, dates in month-and-year form, the meeting location for the September 2026 elections, and the official titles. They do not give a responsibilities matrix, decision rights, reporting lines, term lengths, committee assignments or delegated authority for the Director of International Affairs.

The OEB membership announcement, published in August 2026, says the association represents companies active in manufacturing, wholesale and retail trade, and in the export of vaping products, contributing to a dynamic and outward-looking sector of the Cypriot economy. That sentence describes the association’s membership base and economic context. It does not say that the Director of International Affairs manages export matters, leads trade delegations or handles international member relations. The distinction is important because context is not the same as a duty assignment. Even a phrase such as “outward-looking” does not authorise observers to write a foreign-affairs work plan for a named board member.

The association has also published stated goals that it will seek to promote through the collective action of its Members in collaboration with OEB. These goals include implementing legislation prohibiting the sale of vaping products to minors and preventing commercial practices that could attract minors; promoting responsible business activity in the vaping market; informing consumers and competent authorities on vaping-related issues; utilising the scientific debate around vaping as a potential low-risk alternative option for adult smokers; consolidating members’ professional ethics in line with national and European regulatory frameworks; and strengthening dialogue with the State on evidence-based and balanced public health policies. On the fourth point, the wording should remain attributed as a stated goal, not a health finding. None of these goals is published as the personal duty of the Director of International Affairs. They are collective aims, and the board roster does not assign them to individual officers.

How to Use the Title Accurately in Communications

Accurate communication about a board title is mostly a discipline of restraint. In a profile, directory entry, news report or member briefing, the safest formulation is to say that Nikolas Papasolomontos is listed as Director of International Affairs on the Board of Directors of the Cyprus Vaping Association, and that the association’s published pages do not describe the duties attached to that title. This gives readers the verified information while making clear what remains unpublished. It avoids the common error of filling a gap with plausible-sounding activity: “international affairs” becomes “foreign partnerships,” which becomes “trade negotiations,” which becomes “representing the sector abroad,” even though none of those steps appears in the source material.

For SEO and directory listings, the title can be indexed exactly as published. The full official name, Cyprus Vaping Association, can sit beside the board roster without requiring a separate biography or a fabricated portfolio. The association’s main published aim—promoting correct information and responsible communication about vaping—belongs to the organisation as a whole. The OEB membership announcement and the two Latest News posts provide enough material to describe the association’s creation, its OEB relationship and its board composition. They do not provide enough material to describe the day-to-day work of the Director of International Affairs.

This approach also protects against accidental overstatement. A title can be reported without being interpreted; a name can be published without a biography being invented; and an association’s stated goals can be quoted without being reassigned to one officer. Where the public record is silent, the accurate description is silence, not speculation. That is the most professional way to treat the Director of International Affairs title: as a published board designation with no invented duties attached.