Wikileaks founder Julian Assange holds a press conference at the Ecuadorian foreign ministry office now, and says he plans to leave the Ecuador embassy in London "soon" after two years of refuge. Assange was granted diplomatic asylum in Ecuador.

Assange, whose website WikiLeaks published classified US military and diplomatic documents, has been living inside the Ecuadorian embassy building since being granted diplomatic asylum by the Latin American nation in August 2012.

Britain wants to extradite him to Sweden under a European Arrest Warrant for questioning in relation to a sexual assault investigation. Australia-born Assange fears that from Sweden he will be extradited to the US, where he could face 35 years in prison for publishing classified documents related to the Pentagon's activities in Iraq and Afghanistan on WikiLeaks.