NEW DELHI, Aug. 11—India and the Soviet Union issued a joint statement tonight that Indian official sources said should be read as a declaration that the two countries hold “identical” views on the crisis in East Pakistan.

The statement itself, which came after four days of talks and the signing of the new friendship treaty, did not go quite that far.

It said that the two countries’ positions were “identical or very close” on various problems discussed by the Soviet Foreign Minister, Andrei A. Gromyko, and the Indian Foreign Minister, Swaran Singh, and Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.

The statement, issued on the eve of Mr. Gromyko's departure for Moscow tomorrow, went on to say that both sides “reiterated their firm conviction that there can be no military solution and considered it necessary that urgent steps be taken in East Pakistan for the achievement of a political solution and for the creation of conditions of safety for the return of the refugees to their homes.”

This falls somewhat short of the official Indian position that a political solution can be reached only with the elected representatives of the Awami League. The party won a majority of the National Assembly seats in last December's national elections in Pakistan but was banned as it moved for autonomy and the Pakistani Government began its military campaign on March 25 to try to crush the movement in East Pakistan.

The military repression there, which is continuing, has sent over seven million Bengali refugees fleeing into India, and the daily influx is still in the thousands.

The joint statement included no declaration by Mrs. Gandhi and other Indian officials that they would send the refugees back only to an independent Bangla Desh, the name the independence movement has given to East Pakistan. Defense Minister Jagjivan Ram, for example, said at a huge public rally here yesterday that “they will go back only to the country of Mujib.”

But aside from these signs of Soviet restraint, the statement reaffirmed in the warmest terms the closer Indian‐Soviet relationship established by the friendship treaty.