London: Julian Assange has told a press conference in London that he will leave the Ecuadorian embassy that has been his home for the past two years soon - but not imminently.

He did not specify any time line for his departure from the embassy other than to say it will be not be for the reasons that "the Murdoch press and Sky News" believe.

Wikileaks co-founder Julian Assange taking part in a live video conference in Mexico City earlier this month. Credit:Ronaldo Schemidt

In a long press conference that mainly reiterated his legal position as he sees it, Assange dropped an oblique hint that he would be leaving the embassy but did not reply to a request to be clearer.

Assange noted that a "highly decorated journalist in Iceland" had confirmed that he was leaving the embassy "soon", but not for the reasons believed, an apparent reference to his health.