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Consider the boundary value problem \[ \begin{cases} -(pu')' +q u =\lambda u & \text{on } [0, b), \\ u(0) \cos \alpha +p u'(0) \sin\alpha =0, \end{cases} \tag{1} \] where \(1/p\) ands \(q\) are real-valued, locally integrable functions on \([0, b)\), and \(\alpha\in [0, \pi]\) is fixed; and denote by \(T\) one of the selfadjoint realizations of (1). The main result of the paper is a generalization of the Paley-Wiener theorem to the case of generalized Fourier transform associated to \(T\). One of the main ingredients is the asymptotic formulas for the Weyl solution and Titchmarsh-Weyl \(m\)-function associated to \(T\), obtained by the author in his paper [Proc. Lond. Math. Soc., III. Ser. 59, No. 2, 294--338 (1989; Zbl 0681.34023)]. Indeed, the relation between the support of a function and the behaviour of its generalized Fourier transform is formulated in terms related to these asymptotics. As an application, the author obtains a uniqueness (modulo unitary Liouville transforms) result for the inverse spectral problem associated to (1). Some other generalizations are discussed briefly. For the entire collection see [Zbl 1015.00019].