Video: 'President George Bush Oval Office Address on suspension of the Gulf War - February 27, 1991 9 pm.'

(Wednesday, February 27, 1991, 9:02 p.m. EST/Thursday, February 28, 1991, 5:02 a.m. Arabia Standard Time; during the Gulf War) — Declaring that “Kuwait is liberated” and Iraq’s army defeated, U.S. President George H.W. Bush ordered allied forces tonight to suspend offensive military operations against Iraqi President Saddam Hussein’s isolated and battered army.

Bush said the suspension, which would begin at midnight EST (8 a.m. Arabia Standard Time, Feb. 28, 1991), would continue as long as Iraq did not attack allied forces or launch missile attacks on any other country.

In an address from the Oval Office that was televised around the world, he called on Hussein to send his commanders to meet with allied officers in the war zone within 48 hours to settle the military terms of a permanent cease-fire.