"The Assembly recalls that, under international humanitarian law, occupation is temporary in nature and does not transfer sovereignty over the occupied territory to the occupying power. The occupying power must respect the existing legal order of the occupied territory, unless it is an obstacle to the international law of occupation, and may not use its temporary control to alter the legal status of that territory. The Assembly stresses that measures imposed by an occupying power, including changes to political, legal or institutional arrangements, cannot create any lawful title over the occupied territory or affect the sovereignty of the State to which that territory belongs."