Indian President Pratibha Patil Tuesday returned home from a nine-day tour of South Africa and Seychelles, said to be her last foreign tour before her tenure ends on July 25.

During the first leg of her tour, she went to Seychelles on April 29 for two days, during which India reiterated its support to the island republic in tackling with piracy in the Indian Ocean and a 75 million U.S. dollars financial package to it. "India and Seychelles also inked two pacts on police research and on cooperation in youth and sports affairs to facilitate greater people to people contact," sources said.

In South Africa, President Patil met her counterpart Jacob Zuma and discussed various key bilateral issues and the two countries also decided to expand cooperation in a number of fields like power, information technology health, tourism and infrastructure development, the sources said.

President Patil also attended the Indo-South Africa business council meeting with Zuma and stressed upon taking the bilateral trade between the two countries to 15 billion U.S. dollars by 2015, they added.

The Indian president recently courted controversy after it was revealed though a Right to Information application that she spent a whopping amount for her foreign trips during her five-year tenure.