Today I am embarrassed and ashamed to be Australian.

I wouldn't hold my breath. While I fully support it if it ever happens, I doubt the US will ever even acknowledge the harm it caused.

These are all incredibly weak justifications wrapped in legalese, that's really just a thin posturing as to their position, which is white/western supremacy, and refusing to hold themselves accountable for hundreds of years of ongoing theft. The EU also refuses to vote for the condemnation of nazism using the same type of legalistic justifications.

I don't have time to go through each of their sentences, but someone easily could ala the style of Marx's critique of the gotha programme, because there's hidden meanings and psychology behind almost every sentence that requires a paragraph.

Classic European rules lawyering to smugly dip out of doing something they never wanted to do anyway. They could have written the resolution themselves, to their exact specifications, and they would still find a convenient technical reason to avoid making any kind of stand against imperialism, past or present.

Slavers will always make excuses for not condemning slavery.

All of a sudden, Europe now cares about international law?

Sounds to me like the EU is just saying "all lives matter" in legal jargon. Tripping over pedantics because they don't want to be seen as responsible for their predecessors actions even though they hold plenty of southern hemisphere countries regularly responsible for actions not committed by their current govt.

If only they actually meant that. Seems they forgot that they use nothing but superlatives when it comes to crimes they now politicially benefit from, like holocaust. Should I provide quotes? But yes Afd makes the same argument for holocaust, go figure.

They also forgot to add that they were the main beneficiaries of the Atlantic slave trade. I'm sure that it must be a coincidence.

"The western world" in politics doesn't usually refer to geography, but to the high income euro-amerikkkan countries who benefitted from hundreds of years of theft (much from the countries you mentioned), who based themselves on individualism, private property, and capitalism, and prided themselves on their opposition to the collectivist policies of eastern countries.

This is why Cuba for example is not considered part of the western world, yet japan and south korea are.

Marxists also generally use the term "global south" or "the periphery" to refer to lower-income / exploited via unequal exchange, even though there are some "middle" / lower income countries in the global north also. It gets confusing I know.

In this context "West" means: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_world

The Transatlantic slave trade lasted for centuries and included both genocide and rape and way more

I don't understand the goal of making a superlative statement. Any government not run by ghouls would condemn slavery.
Inbe4 " my least favorite government would totally not condemn slavery as a concept lolololol"