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Around 200 supporters and a smaller number of counter-demonstrators attended the conference.<ref name="guardian.co.uk"/> He indicated a desire to completely dissociate himself from Israel, initially refusing to speak in [[Hebrew language|Hebrew]], and planning to move to Europe or the United States<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.serve.com/vanunu/20060113jakarta.html|title=Discussion with a Friend from JAKARTA (letter from Vanunu)|publisher=The Mordechai Vanunu Website|date=13 January 2006|access-date=12 April 2006|archive-date=26 February 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210226114359/https://www.serve.com/vanunu/20060113jakarta.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> as soon as the Israeli government would permit him to do so.
Shortly before his scheduled release, Vanunu remained defiant under interrogation by the security service, Shin Bet. In recordings of the interview made public after his release, he is heard saying "I am neither a traitor nor a spy, I only wanted the world to know what was happening." He also said, "We don't need a [[Jewish state]]. There needs to be a Palestinian state. Jews can, and have lived anywhere, so a Jewish State is not necessary."<ref name=Vanunu_defiant>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3640989.stm|title=Vanunu defiant ahead of release|publisher=BBC|date=19 April 2004|access-date=3 October 2007}}</ref> "Vanunu is a difficult and complex person. He remains stubbornly, admirably uncompromisingly true to his principles, and is willing to pay the price," said ''Ha'aretz'' newspaper in 2008.<ref name="haaretz.com">Yossi Melman [http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/975302.html Haaretz] "It is time to free Vanunu", haaretz.com, 16 April 2008.</ref>
Following his release, Vanunu moved to an apartment in [[Jaffa]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-2905585,00.html|script-title=he:המרגל מרדכי ואנונו: "אני גאה ומאושר, אין יותר סודות"|publisher=www.ynet.co.il|trans-title=The spy Mordechai Vanunu: "I am proud and happy, there are no more secrets"|author=Hanan Greenberg|author2=Shmulik Hadad|newspaper=Ynet |date=21 April 2004|language=he}}</ref> After the address was published in the media, he decided to live in [[St. George's Cathedral, Jerusalem|St. George's Cathedral]] in [[Jerusalem]]. He regularly receives visitors and sympathizers and has repeatedly defied the conditions of his release by giving interviews to foreign journalists.<ref>[http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2005/04/07/1112815667418.html 'I am still here', Vanunu reminds Israel], theage.com.au, 7 April 2005.</ref>
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