US to target more people tied to Bissau drug trade

* U.S. urges other countries to follow suit

* U.S. concerned drug suspect stayed at U.N. compound

By Patrick Worsnip

UNITED NATIONS, July 15 (Reuters) - The United States, which has already named two senior Guinea-Bissau military officers as drug kingpins, said on Thursday it would target other people involved in narcotics trading through the West African state.

Speaking after a U.N. Security Council discussion of the tiny coastal country seen as a hub of the drug trade between Latin America and Europe, U.S. envoy Brooke Anderson called on other countries to follow Washington's lead.

Guinea-Bissau was the scene of an army mutiny on April 1 that ousted the military chief and briefly detained the prime minister, dashing hopes for progress after successful elections last year to replace a slain president.

One of those named as a drug kingpin on April 8 by the U.S. Treasury Department was former Navy chief of staff Bubo Na Tchuto, an ally of the mutiny leader. The other was Air Force chief of staff Ibraima Papa Camara.

As a consequence, the two men are prohibited from financial transactions with U.S. citizens and businesses, and their assets are frozen wherever U.S. jurisdiction applies.

"The United States will continue to target through sanctions other individuals who are facilitating the narcotics trade through Guinea-Bissau and West Africa," Anderson told reporters.