The present paper is devoted to the study of the generalized projection : * → , where is a uniformly convex and uniformly smooth Banach space and is a nonempty closed (not necessarily convex) set in . Our main result is the density of the points * ∈ * having unique generalized projection over nonempty close sets in . Some minimisation principles are also established. An application to variational problems with nonconvex sets is presented.( ) ≥ (resp., ( ) ≤ ) .Obviously from the definition of -uniform convexity anduniform smoothness the constants and satisfy ∈ (1, 2] and ≥ 2. It is known (see, e.g., [8,9]) that uniformly convex