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The author proves a general theorem following the techniques of KKM mapping and the Fan-KKM theorem. The theorem is stated as follows: Theorem: Let \(C\) be a nonempty convex subset of a Hausdorff topological vector space \(X\) and let \(\Gamma(x,y)\), \(x,y\in C\), be a sentence formula, such that (i) for every \(x\in C\), \(\Gamma(x,x)\); (ii) for every \(x\in C\), \(\{y\in C:\Gamma(x,y)\}\) is empty or convex; (iii) for every \(y\in C\), \(\{x\in C:\Gamma(x,y)\}\) is closed; (iv) there exists a compact convex subset \(D\) of \(C\), such that \[ \bigcap_{y\in D}\{x\in C:\Gamma(x, y)\} \] is contained in a compact subset of \(C\). Then there exists \(x_0\in C\) such that \(\Gamma(x_0, y)\) for every \(y\in C\). A few corollaries to above theorem and related results are also proved. The theorem is applied in the study of variational inequalities, approximation theory and fixed point theory.